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St. Anthony Shrine& Ministry Center

Sunday, December 15 Saturday, December 21, 2013

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Welcome to the St. Anthony ShrineCommunity. All are welcome here.

No one is excluded.

Please take this bulletin home with you aswell as the many brochures that advertisethe programs and services of the Shrine.Thank you for being with us today.

Franciscan friars and staffSt. Anthony Shrine community

D E C E M B E R

14 Saturday

Like Stars on Earth fi lm & discussion, 12:30 to3:30 p.m., 2nd fl. classroom (See ad for details.)

15 Sunday

Prison Ministry, SCHC, 8:15 to 11:30 a.m.

Fasting Cholesterol check, Blood pressure &Blood Sugar check, Flu vaccine, 9:00 a.m. to1:30 p.m., Wellness Center.

Damietta Project core team planning meeting,1:30 to 3:30 p.m., Turkish Cultural Center,Boston (See ad for details.)

16 Monday Dental screening*, 10:00 a.m. to Noon

(*by appt. 617-542-6440, ext. 118)Blood pressure & Blood Sugar screening,Flu vaccine, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.,Wellness Center

17 Tuesday

Blood pressure & Blood Sugar screening,Flu vaccine, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.,Wellness Center

Advent Communal Penance Service,12:10 p.m., 1st fl. Church

18 Wednesday

Blood pressure & Blood Sugar screening,Flu vaccine, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.,Wellness Center

Seniors Mass 10:00 a.m., Christmas CraftProject 11:00 a.m., lunch noon

19 Thursday No scheduled events.

21 Saturday

Advent Communal Penance Service,11:30 a.m., 1st fl. Church

Christmas Concert, 7 p.m., 2nd fl. Church(See ad for details.)

WHATS HAPPENING THIS WEEK

REGULAR EVENTSMonday A.A. Step Meeting 5:45 p.m.Tuesday Seniors Crafts Group 10:30 a.m.

A.A. Open Meeting NoonMens Cursillo Reunion 5:15 p.m.

Wednesday Remembrance Day for Deceased (3rd Wed.) All MassesWomens Spiritual Refl. Group (2nd & 4th Wed) 12:30 p.m.Seniors Computer Lab 1:30 p.m.

Grupo Hispano de Oracin 4:15 p.m.A.A. Open Meeting 5:45 p.m.Bread on the Common (2nd & 4th Wed.) 5:45 p.m.Anointing of the Sick Mass (2nd Wed.) TBA

Thursday S.L.A.A. Meeting NoonMens Spirituality Group (2nd & 4th Thurs.) 5:00 p.m.A.A. Big Book Meeting 5:45 p.m.

Saturday Vietnamese Secular Franciscans (2nd Sat.) 9:30 a.m.Secular Franciscans (2nd Sat.) 10:50 a.m.Centering Prayer Group (1st & 3rd Sat.) Noon

Sunday 20/30 Boston Young Adults Coffee (4th Sun.) 10:30 a.m.alt. Wine & Cheese Social (odd 4th Sun.) 4:30 p.m.

Pieta Ministry Coffee (1st Sun.) 11:00 a.m.Healing Service (2nd Sun.) 1:00 p.m.Separated and Divorced Catholics 1:30 p.m.Hispanic Secular Franciscans (1st Sun.) 3:00 p.m.

READINGS FOR THE WEEKMonday: Nm 24:2-7, 15-17a; Ps 25:4-5ab, 6, 7bc-9;

Mt 21:23-27Tuesday: Gn 49:2, 8-10; Ps 72:1-4ab, 7-8, 17;

Mt 1:1-17Wednesday: Jer 23:5-8; Ps 72:1-2, 12-13, 18-19;

Mt 1:18-25Thursday: Jgs 13:2-7, 24-25a;

Ps 71:3-4a, 5-6ab, 16-17; Lk 1:5-25Friday: Is 7:10-14; Ps 24:1-4ab, 5-6; Lk 1:26-38Saturday: Sg 2:8-14 or Zep 3:14-18a;

Ps 33:2-3, 11-12, 20-21; Lk 1:39-45Sunday: Is 7:10-14; Ps 24:1-6; Rom 1:1-7;

Mt 1:18-24

2 Saint Anthony Shrine The Church on Arch Street

SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCESSunday: Third Sunday of AdventMonday: Las Posadas beginsSaturday: St. Peter Canisius; Winter begins

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Pray for Peace in the Middle East!

Events This Week

100 Arch Street Boston, Massachusetts 02110 617.542.6440 3

Cover Art... Natale Francescano (lit. Been Born ThemFranciscan friars preparing Crche), serigraph fromAssisi focused on life of Franciscan Friars in Assisi.

Inconvenient Film Series

Like Stars on EarthSaturday, December 14, 2013,12:30 to 3:30 p.m., Cost: $5.2nd fl. classroom

Ishaa Ishaan is an 8 year oldwhose world is filled withwonders that no one elseseems to appreciate; colors,fish, dogs, and kites are just notimportant in the world of adults,who are much more interestedin things like homework, gradesand neatness. Ishaa just cannot seem to getanything right in class. When he gets into far moretrouble than his parents can handle, he is packedoff to a boarding school to be disciplined. Thingsare no different at his new school, and Ishaa has tocontend with the added trauma of separation fromhis family. A new art teacher infects the studentswith joy and optimism and breaks all the rules ofhow things are done by asking them to think,dream and imagine. All the children respond withenthusiasm except Ishaa. The teacher soonrealizes that Ishaa is unhappy and sets out todiscover why. With time, patience and care, heultimately helps Ishaa find himself.

Contact: Dr. Jackie Stewart, St. Anthony Shrine, 617-542-6440, ext. 143 or email [email protected].

Offered by the Franciscan Adult School

The Damietta ProjectCatholics & Muslims working together

for the Common Good

Core team planning meetingSunday, December 15. 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.Turkish Cultural Center, Boston

Our interfaith group grew out of the recently

completed Just Matters study module In the Spiritof St. Francis and the Sultan that began last Fall.Information will appear in upcoming Bulletins aboutcommunity-wide events and our work-in-progress on projects in food sustainability and

food waste management.

St. Anthony Shrine Just Matters Group

Peace & Social Justice

& Peace Islands Institute/Turkish Cultural Center

Advent Penance Services(1st floor church)Tuesday, December 17, 12:10 p.m.Saturday, December 21, 11:30 a.m.

CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS ON

ARCH STREET

A CONCERT OF LESSONS AND CAROLS

with The Arch Street Bandand the Friars of St. Anthony Shrine

Saturday, December 21, 7 PMSunday, December 22, 2 PM

$10 tickets ($15 at the door)

Sponsorships welcome!$50 (Frankincense)

$100 (Myrrh)$150 (Gold)

St. Anthony Shrine and Ministry Center100 Arch Street

Boston, MA 02110(617) 542-6440

www.stanthonyshrine.org

Is there someone youknow who will be alonethis Christmas? Invitethem to be part of your

Merry Christmas!

Peace and all Good!

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First Coming

God did not wait till the world was ready,

till. . . nations were at peace.

God came when the Heavens were unsteady,

and prisoners cried out for release.

God did not wait for the perfect time.

God came when the need was deep and great.

God dined with sinners in all their grime,

turned water into wine. God did not wait

till hearts were pure. In joy God

came to a tarnished world of sin and doubt.

To a world like ours, of anguished shame

God came, and Gods Light would not go out.

God came to a world which did not mesh,to heal its tangles, shield its scorn.

In the mystery of the Word made Flesh

the Maker of the stars was born.

We cannot wait till the world is sane

to raise our songs with joyful voice,

for to share our grief, to touch our pain,

God came with Love: Rejoice! Rejoice!

Madeleine L'Engle

A joy ever new, a joy which is shared

5. The Gospel, radiant with the glory of Christscross, constantly invites us to rejoice. A fewexamples will suffice. Rejoice! is the angelsgreeting to Mary (Lk 1:28). Marys visit to

Elizabeth makes John leap for joy in his motherswomb (cf. Lk 1:41). In her song of praise, Maryproclaims: My spirit rejoices in God mySaviour (Lk 1:47). When Jesus begins hisministry, John cries out: For this reason, my joyhas been fulfilled (Jn 3:29). Jesus himselfrejoiced in the Holy Spirit (Lk 10:21). Hismessage brings us joy: I have said these thingsto you, so that my joy may be in you, and thatyour joy may be complete (Jn 15:11). OurChristian joy drinks of the wellspring of hisbrimming heart. He promises his disciples: You

will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn intojoy (Jn 16:20). He then goes on to say: But I willsee you again and your hearts will rejoice, and noone will take your joy from you (Jn 16:22). Thedisciples rejoiced (Jn 20:20) at the sight of therisen Christ. In the Acts of the Apostles we readthat the first Christians ate their food with gladand generous hearts (2:46). Wherever thedisciples went, there was great joy (8:8); evenamid persecution they continued to be filledwith joy (13:52). The newly baptized eunuchwent on his way rejoicing (8:39), while Pauls

jailer and his entire household rejoiced that hehad become a believer in God (16:34). Whyshould we not also enter into this great stream ofjoy?

APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION EVANGELIIGAUDIUM OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS,Nov 24, 2013

ejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice.Let your gentleness be known to everyone.The Lord is near.

Philippians 4:4-5

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Artwork: Amen, I say to you, among those born of women there has been none greater than John the Baptist.(Gospel) Detail from Giovanni Bellini,Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist and a Saint, 1500-1504


The Perspective of Justice

He Who Is To Come

From his cell in prison John the Baptist had heard stories about Jesus, and he sentsome of his followers to find out if Jesus is the messiah. Are you He who is to comeor do we look for another? they asked Jesus.

Jesus had to reply in such a way that John would have no doubt about thegenuineness of his messianic activity, and the message he sent back to John was aboutthe blind receiving their sight, the lame walking, the lepers being cleansed, the deafhearing, the dead being raised, and the poor having good news brought to them.

He did not say a word about people praying more orgoing to the synagogue or making God the center oftheir lives: The age of the messiah, as expressed in thisreport, does not concern religion in the traditionalsense of the word.

One knows that the messiah has come because a realchange has taken place in society, a change that involvesthe liberation of those who have always been cut offfrom the main branch of society.

Jesus is the messiah because those who are blind,crippled, diseased, and poor have been liberated fromthe things which make them the victims of injustice.

We can turn the statement around to say that if thedregs of society do not experience liberation, then Jesusis not the messiah.

But Jesus is the messiah, and so the dead have come tolife: those who have been unable to live in a societythat has written them off, are now alive with hope.

The Gospel has truly been a leaven of liberty and progress in human history, even inits temporal sphere, and always proves itself a leaven of brotherhood, of unity, andof peace. Therefore, not without cause is Christ hailed by the faithful as the expectedof the nations, and their Savior (Antiphon O for Dec. 23).

Vatican II, Decree on the Missionary

Activity of the Church (1965) 8

Gerald DarringCopyright 1994, Gerald Darring.

All Rights Reserved.

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MINISTRIES OF SAINT ANTHONY SHRINEWORSHIP/YOUR SPIRITUAL HOME RECONCILIATION MUSIC LAZARUS PROGRAM WELLNESS CENTER

SAINT ANTHONY BREAD FOR THE POOR BREAD ON THE COMMON FRANCISCAN SPIRITUAL COMPANIONSHIP MINISTRYTHE KIDS PROGRAM SENIORS ON ARCH STREET MYCHALJUDGE CENTER FOR RECOVERY FRANCISCAN FOOD CENTER

EVANGELIZATION GOOD WORD: (617) 542-0502 HISPANIC MINISTRY FRANCISCAN ADULT SCHOOL PIETA MINISTR20S/30S BOSTON COME HOME PROGRAM PRISON MINISTRY LGBT MINISTRY GRIEF MINISTRY

CONTACT US:Phone: 1-617-542-6440Fax: 1-617-542-4225Website: http://www.StAnthonyShrine.orgAddress: 100 Arch Street

Downtown CrossingBoston, MA 02110

EXECUTIVE STAFF

Fr. Thomas Conway, OFMExecutive Director

TBD, OFMAssistant Executive Director of Ministries

SAINT ANTHONY SHRINE & MINISTRY CENTER~ All Are Welcome ~

WEEKDAY MASSES

Celebrated in Second Floor Chapel

6:00 a.m. 7:00 a.m.

10:00 a.m. 11:45 a.m. 12:30 p.m.1:15 p.m. 5:15 p.m.

Second WednesdayAnointing Mass:time to be announced

Third WednesdayDay of Remembrance

SATURDAY MASSES

Celebrated in Second Floor Chapel

8:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. 12:00 Noon

SATURDAY AFTERNOON

VIGIL MASSESSecond Floor First Floor

Chapel Chapel

4:00 p.m. ** 4:15 p.m.

5:30 p.m. **

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION

Celebrated in First Floor Chapel

Weekdays: 6:30 to 8:00 a.m.;

10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.; 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.

Saturday: 6:30 to 8:00 a.m. and

10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.Seasonal Communal Penance Service:

(to be announced)

Sunday: 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Legal Holiday: 8:30 to 10:00 a.m.

6:00 a.m. 7:30 a.m. 9:00 a.m.Following Masses ** Music

10:00 a.m. 11:15 a.m. 12:30 Noon

4:00 p.m. 5:30 p.m.

Benediction

(First Floor Chapel)

Weekdays: 5:00 p.m.

Saturdays and Sundays: 3:30 p.m.Holy Rosary of Mary Sundays: 2:45 p.m.

Chaplet of Divine Mercy Sundays: 3:00 p.m.

Vespers Sundays: 3:15 p.m.

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

(First Floor Chapel)

Weekdays at 1:45 p.m.

Saturdays at 12:30 p.m.

Sundays at 1:00 p.m.

Tuesdays: St. Anthony Devotions

Wednesdays: Spanish Mass - 5:15 p.m.

Thursdays: St. Jude Devotions

SUNDAY MASSES

Second Floor Chapel

** Music Masses

The Arch Street Band

MISA EN ESPAOL

Cada mircoles a las 5:15 de la tarde

8:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m.

LEGAL HOLIDAY MASSES

Second Floor Chapel


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Third Sunday of Advent A

Reading I: Isaiah 35:1-6A, 10

Responsorial Psalm 72:1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17

Reading II: James 5:7-10

Gospel: Matthew 11:2-11

Wait and Be Small

Sundays readings are about patience, but they arerooted in the reality of humility.

Patience says, No need to worry endlessly aboutthe future. Slow down, look around, live.

Jesus was patient this way. It was eons (in our timemeasurements) till he was born into the world. Hesuckled at Marys breast till full. He waited as he

was gently burped. And think of his years as acarpenter. Gods beloved, making a chair. Andthen another chair.

Mary was patient this way. Her lifelong closenessto God, her saying yes, her nine months, her daysat his side, her place at the cross. When the angelfirst announced to her, she did not demandedguarantees and security. She offered trust, notdemands.

Such beautiful sights.

We have some very long traffic lights in St. Louis.They change to red just as I drive up. I examine mywatch to see how long the proud light will wield itspower. Sometimes it stays on forlisten to thisaminute and thirty seconds! Forever! I am late andin a hurry and a mechanical device is announcing,No, no, you may not go, even though there is notraffic whatsoever to stop for.

Do I seem impatient? I admit it, and I want tobecome patient. I want it this Advent especially. Iwant the desert and the parched land to exult. I

want them to blossom with abundant flowers andcause me to rejoice with joyful song (FirstReading)! I am impatient for it. But I have to wait.

I want patience and I want it now (just kidding).

We all know reasons why patience should be in ourlives. It is a virtue. It is nice. Proper people haveit. Vulgar people dont. It is a help to others. Jesuswas patient, Mary was patient, God is patient.

Spirituality of the ReadingsWhy cant you and I be patient? It appears that weare actually being impatient about patience.

Compare my description of the stop light abovewith the following portrayal of a farmer from theSecond Reading:

See how the farmer waits for the preciousfruit of the earth, being patient with ituntil it receives the early and the late rains.*

Can you feel the difference? The man tilling theground is quiet, almost glad to wait. He trusts thatthe conditions will be right and that his waitingwill blossom.

Isense something else here, and it helps.Humility. We have spoken of it recently inthese pages. To be humble is to be exactly what

you are, not something larger or smaller than youare. It takes time to arrive at this position, but it is

worth it.

In a famous poem, Percy Bysshe Shelley describesa terrifying monarch from the past. The followingwords appear on a broken-down pedestal lying allby itself in the desert:

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:Look on my works, ye Mighty, anddespair! Nothing beside remains.

Listen to the brag, look at the squashed wreckageof pride.

Human beings have to become what they reallyand truly are: small creatures. By means of waitingwe find that, tiny as we are, through gift, we stillhave an openness to the real and consolingpresence of God. No need to dress in fine clothingor live in royal palaces (Gospel).

Become humbly yourself and be content.

Be patient.

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*I wrote a Church song called Patience, People (available oniTunes, at John Foley, S. J.) that has these words of thefarmer in it. The translation I used was:

See the farmer await the yield of the soil.He watches it in winter and in spring rain.

Fr. John Foley, S. J.Copyright 2009, The Center for Liturgy at Saint Louis University.

All rights reserved. Used by permission

You are invited to write a note to the author of this reflection:Fr. John Foley, S. J. ([email protected])


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