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Mass Schedule Saturday Vigil, 4:00 pm Sunday, 7:30, 9, 11 am

5:30 pm Vietnamese Daily Mass Mon-Sat 8:30 am

Morning Prayer 8:10 am

Anointing of the Sick on request following Mass

Reconciliation Thursday 3-4, 7-7:30

Devotions Adoration Mon-Fri 9-12:00 Wed & First Friday 9-6:00 Holy Hour Wed 2:00-3:00

First Friday 5:00-6:00 Rosary-Divine Mercy Chaplet

after weekday Mass 3:00 Saturday in Church,

1:00 Monday in Social Hall Miraculous Medal Novena

Tuesday after Mass Contemplative Prayer

Friday 1:30-3:00

Parish Staff Pastor

Fr William Fickel, SSS Parish Administrator Christine DeLieto

Secretary Peggy Genalo, LPMI

Faith Formation Director Jane Etzel

Liturgy and Choir Director Sheila Shindorf

Maintenance Robert Letsos

SSS Community

Brother Peter Mahady, SSS Fr Joseph Thai Tran, SSS

Fr Peter Tuong Nguyen, SSS

Bulletin Editor Ethel Lapitan

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time—July 17,2016

“Lord, do you not care that my sister

has left me by myself to do the serving?

Tell her to help me.”

St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time—July 17, 2016

Sunday, July 17, 2016 7:00 Choir Rehearsal

8:30 Choir Rehearsal

Novena of St. Ann begins

Monday, July 18 Adoration 9:00 - 12 noon

Novena of St. Ann after 8:30Mass 7:00 Ladies Auxiliary K of C meeting Media Room

7:00 K of C Council meeting Fr . Far rell Hall

Tuesday, July 19 Adoration 9:00 - 12 noon

Novena of St. Ann after 8:30 Mass

9:00 Miraculous Medal Devotion, Church

6:00 Children Choir & Chimes Rehearsal Music Room

7:00 Adult Choir Rehearsal Music Room

Wednesday, July 20 Adoration 9:00 am - 6:00 pm


Holy Hour in honor of St. Ann 2:00 - 3:00 pm

3:00 Associates General meeting Social Hall

4:00 Share the Word Scripture Study St. Francis

Thursday July 21 Adoration 9:00 - 12 noon


10:00 Mass at Sunshine Christian Home

12 noon MM & SJW Volunteers church cleaning

Confessions 3:00 - 4:00 pm and 7:00 - 7:30 pm

Friday, July 22 Adoration 9:00 - noon

Novena of St. Ann after 8:30 Mass 8:00 Coffee Social Media Room

1:30 - 3:00 Centering Prayer Social Hall

Saturday, July 23

Novena of St. Ann after 8:30 Mass 9:00 Carmelites Meeting St. Francis Room

3:00 Divine Mercy Chaplet Church

6:00 Teen Life Night Media Room

3:00 & 5:00 Choir Rehearsal Music Room

This Week in Our Parish We look forward to seeing you

Welcome to St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church.

Contact the Parish Office for registration and please

let us know if you need a visitation from our priests.

We encourage you to join in the many activities

found in the bulletin.

COMING EVENTS / Save the Date

SUNDAY - JULY 17, 2016

SIXTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

7:30 AM Nancy Di Franco+ - Phyllis Tokar

9:00 AM Angelina Scicutella+ - The Genalo Family

11:00 AM For the People

MONDAY - JULY 18

8:30 AM Hope Vosburgh+ - Don Vosburgh

TUESDAY - JULY 19

8:30 AM Nancy Spindler+ - Cindy and Nick Spanos

WEDNESDAY - JULY 20

8:30 AM Deacon Gerry White+ - Mary Brady

THURSDAY - JULY 21

8:30 AM John Brady+ - Wife Mary

FRIDAY - JULY 22

8:30 AM Agatha Boulay+ - Paul Champagne

SATURDAY - JULY 23

8:30 AM Anna Maria De Cardenas+; Jose Ruiz+ &

Samuel Becker+ - Rogelio and Mediavilla

4:00 PM Angel Carino+ - Tony and Lee D.

SUNDAY - JULY 24, 2016

SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

7:30 AM Agatha Boulay+ - Ron & Lorraine Tine

9:00 AM Sally Anne Living+ - Cathy Maroney

11:00 AM For the People

Sanctuary Candle Reserved for Mike and Agnes Forte

The Mass Intentions Book for 2017 is now open in the

Parish Rectory Office. Mass donations are $10.

August 6 & 7 after all Masses: Recruitment for

Faith Formation Catechists

August 21 & 22 after all Masses: Registration for Fall

Youth Faith Formation

August 27 10:00 - 4:00 First Annual Vendors’ Expo

July 10 —Parish Offering Support

Total Offertory—$6045.00

Propagation of the Faith Collection—

$1328.00

Total All Envelopes—232

#Cash Envelopes—124

#Checks Envelopes—108

Mass Attendance was—613 people

4:00 PM—188; 7:30 AM—80;

9:00 AM —135; 11:00 AM—210

Registered Families—647

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time—July 17, 2016 www.svdpfl.con

IN MEMORIAM

Carol Albert; Jeannie Letsos; Richard H. Brose; Deacon

Gerry White; Elaine Frances Fletcher

Eternal Rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual

light shine upon them. We glory in the resurrection of

Jesus Christ. We keep all our faithful departed and their

loved ones in our prayers.

Readings for the Week of July 17, 2016

Sunday Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary

Time

Gn 18:1-10; Ps 15; Col 1:24-28; Lk 10:38-42

Monday Saint Camillus de Lellis, Priest

Mi 6:1-8; Ps 50; Mt 12:38-42

Tuesday Mi 7:14-20; Ps 85; Mt 12:46-50

Wednesday Saint Apollinaris

Jer 1:1-10; Ps 71; Mt 13:1-9

Thursday Saint Lawrence of Brindisi

Jer 2:1-13; Ps 36; Mt 13:10-17

Friday Saint Mary Magdalene

Jer 3:14-17; Jer 31:10-13; Jn 20:1-18

Saturday Saint Br idget, Religious

Jer 7:1-11; Ps 84; Mt 13:24-30

Sunday Seventeenth in Ordinary Time

Gn 18:20-32; Ps 138; Col 2:12-14; Lk 11:1-13

Statement of Activities June, 2016 Current Month Actual Month

Budget Income/Expenses

Income

40,915.00 25,699.52

Expenses

54,671.28 32,312.67

Income – Expenses

(13,756.28) (6,613.15)

As you can see we have been working hard to reduce our

expenses. However, we are operating at a loss at this point.

We do not have enough income to pay our bills. In addi-

tion, we are not paying our school assessment, property and

liability insurance as well as other unexpected expenses.

On a side note we would like to thank all of those who gave

so generously to our requests last week. We have enough

to cover everything but the 60” television. Thank you for

your continued support of your Parish.

Come Celebrate the Feast

Day of St. Ann and St Joa-

chim is Tuesday, July 26. The

Congregation of the Blessed

Sacrament is dedicated to St.

Ann. Our Parish will hold a

Novena in Honor of St. Ann

from Sunday, July 17 contin-

uing through July 25. The

Novena prayers will be recit-

ed after the morning Masses.

Novena booklets will be avail-

able. The Associates of the Blessed Sacrament will gather on

Wednesday, July 20, to honor St. Ann with a special Holy

Hour of Adoration from 2:00 to 3:00 pm in Honor of St. Ann,

the grandmother of Our Lord. All are welcome to attend.

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time—July 17, 2016 www.svdpfl.com

Step 7: Letting God We humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.

We have all hear the statement, “Let go and Let God.” It is

easier said that done. We can never guide our own trans-

formation or conversion. In trying to do so our conversion

will be self-centered with most of our preferences and ad-

dictions still fully in place but now well disguised. Step 7

says that we must "humbly ask God to remove our short-

comings." Don't ever bother to go after your faults your-

self because you will usually go after the wrong thing (the

real thing remains denied in the un-

conscious).

Instead, we learn to let God reveal

our real faults to us, usually by fall-

ing many times, and by other peo-

ple's opinions of us. We ask God to

remove those faults in God's way

and in God's time. Without admit-

ting that you we are powerless and

in need of God’s intervention we

will most likely find the same faults

at a deeper level of disguise and de-

nial. Thus most people at early stag-

es in recovery just replace one ad-

diction with another. Now it's nico-

tine, caffeine, shopping, eating or

any other compulsive behavior to

calm the inner craving.

Jesus said, "Ask, and it will be given

to you; seek, and you will find;

knock, and it will be opened to

you" (Matt 7:7). He was telling us to

stay in the position of a beggar, a

petitioner, a radical dependent. This

is always our spiritual posture, if we

are honest. To know that we don't

know, to know that we are always in need, keeps us situat-

ed in right relationship with Life itself. Life is a gift, total-

ly given to us without cost. A daily and chosen "attitude of

gratitude" will keep our hands open to allow and receive

life at ever-deeper levels of satisfaction. But don't ever

think you deserve or have earned it.

Humility is foundational. Those who live with such open

and humble hands receive life's gifts in abundance and

throughout their years, "full measure, pressed down, shak-

en together, and running over into their lap" (Luke 6:38).

Humility is the key to attaining true freedom of the human

spirit as well as serenity, strength, and character. “The

desire to seek and do God’s will” is the essential ingredient

of humility, without which we may never find relief from

our most crippling and painful shortcomings.

It may seems impossible to surrender completely to God’s

will until we have seen and accepted the truth about our-

selves, free from the delusions of both self-flattery and self

-loathing. How could we possibly seek to give up a charac-

ter defect or shortcoming that we fail to recognize as a

fault, or cannot admit we possess? Learning to see our-

selves accurately is a consequence of

the self-examination that starts with

Step 4. We must overcome the ego-

protecting tendency to deny, distort,

or minimize our failings before we

can acknowledge them to our inner-

most selves and accept our-

selves exactly as we really are.

The important thing is that we not

give up but keep working to become

ever more honest and accepting of

ourselves, acknowledging both our

strengths and our weaknesses. The

7th Step, like the 6th, is not one that

we are ever likely to do completely.

There is much to be gained by persis-

tent effort, peeling away layer after

layer of our old selves as we work

the Steps again and again. And each

time we recognize another trouble-

some attitude or behavior and surren-

der it wholeheartedly as expressed in

the 7th Step Prayer, we grow a bit

more in humility.

The 7th Step is so important for our

recovery because when we stop ac-

tively seeking humility, we start feeding our egos . . . and

once we break out in a rash of self-will, we return to our

habitual old behaviors or new ones (booze, drugs, food,

gambling, porn, etc.). For the sake of our continuous spir-

itual growth we replace our shortcomings by being caring

toward others – families, friends, colleagues, and commu-

nities – and without that deeper purpose we deprive our-

selves of the richest rewards life has to offer; a life that is

free and given to others in love.

Adapted from Richard Rohr, Breathing Under Water: Spir-

ituality and the Twelve Steps (Franciscan Media: 2011).


FAMILY LIFE MINISTRY

Get your baseball ticket here!!!! We are all set and ready to

go. The date is August 25th, we leave the church parking lot

at 10 am. The bus will be there at 9:45. We will be back

around 5pm. There is handicap seating available; not a lot of

walking down steps. The cost for the trip is $50.00: this in-

cludes the ticket, the bus ride down and back and the Rays

are giving us each a baseball cap. Jessie or I need to hear

from you as soon as possible. We can take 56 people and we

are starting to fill up. We will be playing the Boston Red

Sox’s this year so let’s root on our Rays. For more infor-

UPCOMING EVENTS FOR THIS SUMMER:

We have four events coming up this late summer and

fall: Our First Annual Vendors Expo on August 27;

A King and Queen for the Day on Grandparents’

Day, September 11; Our Annual Walk-A-Thon on

September 25 and then “Corked and Uncorked, A

Taste of the Gulf “on October 22. We are looking for

enthusiastic volunteers to help with these grand and

fun programs. Please call the Parish Office at 727-

938-1974, ext 1 or 3. Thanks so much!

FAMILY FAITH FORMATION

RCIA - Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults is a

wonderful process of initiation into the Catholic

Faith. Here at St. Vincent de Paul, we offer a year

round program, where you can start at any time and

meet according to your schedule. Those who are

prepared will celebrate the Sacraments of Initiation:

Baptism, Confirmation and Holy Eucharist at the

Easter Vigil. Those who are already baptized in an-

other Christian faith are not baptized again. RCIA

is for:

*Any adult who has never been baptized.

*Adults who have been baptized in another Chris-

tian faith and wish to join the Catholic Church.

*Baptized Catholics who have never received their

First Eucharist, the Sacrament of Penance or Con-

firmation.

If this is you, or someone you know, all that is need-

ed to get started is a call to the Parish Office at 727-

938-1974, ext. 3 or the Faith Formation Office at

ext. 6.

Upcoming Faith Formation dates: Catechist Re-

cruitment August 6 and 7, after all Masses; Regis-

tration for Youth Faith Formation programs August

21 and 22, after all Masses; and 2017 classes begin

on Sunday, September 11 from 10:15 to 11:45 am.

For more information, or to register early, please

call Jane in the Faith Formation Office at 727-938-

1974 ext. 6. Mon - Thurs.

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS

The Knight of Columbus Assembly #1774

….Welcome Father Bill Fickel, sss as “Sir

Knight Father Bill.” It is an honor and a privi-

lege to have you as a member. The Council

#6476 would like to welcome you also. Father McGivney is

very proud of all who serve the Church as Knights of Colum-

bus.

LADIES AUXILIARY

We will have our monthly card party, July 25th from 11

to 3pm with the doors opening at 10am. We will be

having a hot lunch at Noon so tell you friend and neigh-

bors to come and join us. The cost is $7.00.


Pope Francis in a message to the Eucharistic Congress

taking place this weekend in Genoa, Italy said, “On this

happy occasion which is offered to us, I encourage all

the Faithful to always honor the most blessed Eucha-

rist.” The Pope referred to the Eucharist as “a sacra-

ment of love, a sign of unity, a bond of charity,” and he

called the faithful to be nourished by it “in order to be

communally united among themselves, and cooperate

in the building of the Church and the good of the

world.”

“Moreover, I want to encourage everyone to visit – if

possible, every day – especially amid life’s difficulties,

the Blessed Sacrament of the infinite love of Christ and

His mercy, preserved in our churches, and often aban-

doned, to speak filially with Him, to listen to Him in

silence, and to peacefully entrust yourself to Him.

Is Your Marriage

Breaking Your

Heart?

Retrouvaille can help.

Sometimes things can go

very wrong in a mar-

riage. Retrouvaille is a

program to help heal and

support married couples

experiencing difficulties,

couples broken, lonely

and hurting.

Retrouvaille is a program to restore communication

and trust in marriage. If you feel frustrated, hurt and

angry with each other, if you feel trapped by fre-

quent conflict and don't know where to turn, please

know that tens of thousands of couples have been

helped. Even if you are separated or divorced - or

are thinking about it - call and give yourselves an-

other chance. You and your relationship deserve it!

The next program begins August 19, 2016 at The

Hampton Inn in Oldsmar. Let us reserve a place

for you! For more information or r egistration

call 813-906-7705. All calls are strictly confidential.

If you know a couple in a hurting marriage, give the

entire family the priceless gift of love this summer.

Retrouvaille welcomes all married couples in strug-

gling relationships who want to save their marriages.

We also invite you to visit our website at

Retrouvaille.org.

RETROUVAILLE ... A LIFELINE

Stewardship…..

Time, Talent, Treasure

Sunday’s Gospel reading (Luke 10: 38-42) invites us to see our parish and homes as places of welcome and hospitali-

ty. Earlier in this section of Luke, Jesus has sent his disciples

on mission with the order, “Into whatever house you enter say,

‘Peace to this household.’” Jesus entered the home of Martha,

Mary and Lazarus with this greeting. The first thing we are

made to notice is that Martha is ‘burdened with much serving.’

This is a situation that might resonate among many of us with

the tasks of daily life.

Jesus replies to her; “You are anxious and worried about many

things.” The lesson that is set before us suggest that we not be

overtaken by the work that has to be done but rather to take

care of the, “only one thing needed,” to listen to God’s voice

that brings Peace.

What do you suppose that Martha did when Jesus did not tell

Mary to go help her in the kitchen? Do you think that maybe he

said, “leave your sister alone, she has chosen the better part, I’ll

give you a hand preparing the meal!” What joy would have fill

Martha’s heart to know that Jesus was there helping her in a far

better way than Mary ever could in the kitchen. That is the un-

written part of this story.

One of the most rewarding things we do for our Parish is to

volunteer and help when able to do so. Look around and see

how these dedicated helpers contribute to the hospitality of our

parish home. We are grateful for all our unpaid helpers and

encourage anyone to consider joining in serving Our Lord and

our Parish in one of the many ministries here at St. Vincent.

You won’t regret it. It will bring great joy to you. Stewardship,

using our Time, Talent and Treasure aware of the living pres-

ence of God with us helping us to serve others out of love.

Take time each day to welcome him bringing you Peace.


Nicole Worhacz, Michael

Bianco, Fr. Bill, Amanda

Merimee, Mary Worhacz

& Jodena Russo Serving

up food. Last Monday.

The "Apostles of the Eu-

charist" dedicated their

time in a Service Project .

They seemed to enjoy

feeding the needy in our

neighborhood of Holiday.

Our adult team of Volun-

teers serve every third

Monday at the Metropolitan Meal Site on the property of HUC Church. Our Associates of the Blessed

Sacrament work side by side with our SVdP parishioners to create an environment of family and hospi-

tality.

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