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ELEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME JUNE 17, 2018
Saint Anthony of Padua Parish Bulletin
We’re going to start with a difficult but real subject, one that some people bring to us. I wonder how many of you know about the current problems of the Church in Chile. On May 18, all 31 active bishops of Chile submitted their resignation to Pope Francis because a clergy sex abuse scandal which had developed over some years reached its height and many of the bishops were found to be negligent and a huge part of the problem. When people hear this and other bad things Catholics have done, they ask us: “Why are you part of a church that does so much evil?”
Right now, we have eight people in our parish on a journey towards being Catholic. But people will ask them, “Why do you want to become Catholic when the Catholic Church has so many problems?” We have to face this topic—it’s a fair question and deserves a good answer. Here are four ideas that help answer these questions, and today’s Gospel will be the basis of the fourth idea. 1) Every group of people has problems. My friend, Raj, who’s Sikh and very mature, is not shocked by problems in the Catholic Church because he knows there are problems in every group. Every political party has huge scandals. Islam has major problems with violence, does it not? Since last August, 620,000 Muslims have fled the Buddhist-majority Myanmar because of persecution. In Southern India, “there have been more than 15 violent attacks against Christians so far this year” by militant Hindu extremists. Yes, Catholics have done evil things, and we can’t excuse it (We need to face it and own it), but Catholics doing evil things also can’t be used as justification to abandon the Church, because every group has sinners. Catholics don’t leave Jesus because of Judas. 2) In my experience, people who attack religion are secularists, meaning they advocate a world without religion and focus on so-called reason over faith. But I ask them, “Has secularism done more good for society than the Catholic
Church?” As secularism has risen in our country, it’s led to the genocide of millions of Canadians through abortion; between 1974 and 2010, there have been 3.1 million abortions in just Canada. It’s our current secular culture that’s disintegrating the family, with the increase in divorce and the devaluation of the family and the roles of mothers and fathers. We can politely remind them that atheism has caused more murders in history than religion: “Taken together, the Crusades, the Inquisition, and the witch burnings killed… the equivalent of one million… today” (Dinesh D’Souza, from What’s So Great about Christianity). But focusing on the big three atheist regimes led by Stalin, Hitler, and Mao, they’ve murdered over one hundred million people in one century. So, we could ask a fair question: “Given that atheism has caused so much evil in the world, and still does in places like North Korea, why are you still atheist?” 3) Catholicism has done tremendous good throughout history, thanks to Jesus. It was the Church that started universities; Britannica.com says that it was Christianity that started modern hospitals because we didn’t isolate sick people from the community but stayed with them; today, the Church is the largest aid organization in the world. The Church has been one of the greatest patrons of the arts, music and literature. “When Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that ‘all men are created equal,’ he claimed that this was a self-evident truth. But it is not evident at all” (D’Souza). People are unequal in physical qualities, strength, intelligence, virtue, etc. So where did Jefferson get such a crazy idea? Christianity. Each person is an image of God and therefore is equal in terms of dignity. And this led to the end of slavery and gave us human rights. In China and India, do parents want to have more baby boys or girls? But, in countries influenced by Catholicism, such as in Latin America, “the preference for male children is weaker” (Christopher Kaczor, from The Seven Big Myths about the Catholic Church). The positive influence of Christianity is so great that Jordan Peterson points out
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First Saturday of each month: 9:30 am to 9:30 pm in the church during all-day confessions.
Please call the parish office for more information on other Sacraments and Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) classes.
ELEVENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME JUNE 17TH, 2018
Weekday Masses & Intentions
Parish Registration
Our parish family warmly welcomes new parishioners. Please register at your earliest convenience by filling out a registration form located in the vestibule or by stopping by the parish office during office hours. If you are registered and moving, please advise the parish office.
Day Feast or Memorial Missal Page
Intention
Monday, June 18
Ferial 984
Victoria Au Yeung †
Tuesday, June 19
Ferial 986 Victorioso Lana †
Wednesday, June 20
Ferial 988 Gil Turgo †
Thursday, June 21
St. Aloysius
Gonzaga 991 Frank Kim Sing †
Friday, June 22
Ferial 993 Antonio da Costa †
Saturday, June 23
Ferial 995 Pearl Khoo †
Prayers for the Sick At Holy Mass we remember the sick including:
Nita Carvajal, Nung Chum, Isobel Clancy, Nick De Vos, Elaine dos Remedios, Teresa Gaio, Cecile Hernandez, Yvonne Kharoubeh, Molly Loui-Ying, Huguette Piché, Barney Rousseau, Therese Rozario, Filomena Sison, Liliana Taylor, Fernando Tiago and Theresa Yoshioka.
Upcoming Homily themes:
July 14 & 15: God’s Vision for our Parish
July 21 & 22: When Things Don’t Go as You Planned
July 28 & 29: Jesus Wants to Feed Us (The Mass, Part I)
August 18 & 19: Jesus is Contained in the Eucharist (The Mass, Part II)
August 25 & 26: The Transforming Power of the Eucharist
(The Mass, Part III)
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Parish Registration and the Use of Parish Collection Envelopes. Fr. Justin and the Parish Office regularly receives requests for Letters of Good Standing or Reference Letters as part of Baptism, Marriage or Confirmation Sponsor documents, religious certifications, or for Catholic elementary or secondary school applications. NOTE: The only official and ordinary way to obtain these letters is to register in the parish and regularly use envelopes, so that when the need arises, it will be based on official records. This helps avoid unnecessary frustration and misunderstanding when regular Mass attendance cannot be verified through use of envelopes. Thanks for your cooperation.
Registration for St. Anthony’s Parish
Religious Education Program
(PREP) will be on Tuesday, June 26th at
6:00 pm in the church vestibule. Children
attending public school should enroll in
the program. Registration forms are available at the
Welcome Booth or at the back of the church. N.B.
Registrations received after June 30th will be subject to a
surcharge of $10.00.
FAITH STUDIES coming soon!! Deadline to register is Sunday, June 24. The 12th round of Faith Studies will start up again, Tuesday nights from July 3rd - August 7th . All five levels of studies will be offered: Discovery, Source, Growth, Obedience and Commission. Anyone can join, as the studies are designed to
meet you where you are in your faith. For more information, or to register, visit the Welcome Booth or email Angel José at [email protected].
that atheists like Sam Harris are actually Christian in their worldview and morality. They say they don’t believe in God, but they act out a Judeo-Christian ethic. 4) So, why are we still Catholic? Because, as we’ve tried to explain before, Jesus is God and He founded the Catholic Church. But today’s Gospel gives us another insight. Jesus says, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God…? It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches” (Mk 4:30-32). This is an image of the Church: 2,000 years ago, she was just a small seed with 120 people (Cf. Acts 1:15), but now she’s a large shrub with 1.2 billion people. In 1998, in Detroit, a Pentecostal pastor named Alex Jones asked his congregation if they wanted to have a first-century Christian worship service. They said, “Yes!” He responded, “Well, give me 30 days. We’re going to do it the way the early Christians did it!” In those next 30 days, he read early church documents and his whole life was transformed. He found that the Church was liturgical: They had a prescribed system of worship that was uniform and universal. Great
preaching and music weren’t the centre like it is today in many Protestant churches, but the Eucharist was, and the early Christians called it Jesus’ body and blood—Alex thought those ideas came in the Middle Ages. He also learned that the early Church was hierarchical, with bishops, priests and deacons. And they didn’t solve their problems by reading the New Testament—there was no New Testament. They followed the bishops, who had been ordained by the apostles. So he started changing his church to become more like the early Church, and you know what? It started looking more Catholic. Eventually, in 2001, he and 53 members of his Pentecostal church all became Catholic. He said, “I found [Jesus’] Church!” So, let’s ask ourselves a question, “Why are we (still) Catholic?” or “Why do we want to become Catholic?” Perhaps the answer comes quickly to us, perhaps we have to think more about it. Perhaps we need to answer more questions that we didn’t ask today. But God wants us to have a good answer. For many of us, in spite of all the problems in the Catholic
Church (and there are many, including all of us), we’re Catholic
because Jesus died and rose for us, we love Him, and He made
a covenant with us. He’s God, and we want to be in the
Church He founded, which is the Catholic Church.
- excerpt from Fr. Justin’s homily, June 17, 2018
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