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MOST HOLY REDEEMER CATHOLIC CHURCH
8523 NORMANDY BOULEVARD, JACKSONVILLE, FL 32221-6701
(904) 786-1192 FAX: (904) 786-4224 E-MAIL: [email protected]
PARISH WEBSITE: WWW.MHRJAX.ORG OFFICE HOURS: 9:00 A.M.– 4:00 P.M.
REV. TIMOTHY LOZIER, PASTOR
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November 20, 2016
Readings for the Week
LECTURAS DE LA SEMANA
Mon./Lunes Rv 14:1-3, 4b-5; Ps 24:1bc4ab, 5-6; Lk 21:1-4
Tues./Martes Rv 14:14-19; Ps 96:10-13;
Lk 21:5-11
Wed./Miércoles Rv 15:1-4; Ps 98:1-3ab, 7
-9; Lk 21:12-19
Thurs./Jueves Rv 18:1-2, 21-23; 19:1-3,
9a; Ps 100:1b-5; Lk 21:20-28 Thanksgiving Day (suggested): Sir 50:22-24; Ps
145:2-11; 1 Cor 1:3-9; Lk 17:11-19
Fri./Viernes Rv 20:1-4, 11 — 21:2; Ps
84:3-6a, 8a; Lk 21:29-33
Sat./Sábado Rv 22:1-7; Ps 95:1-7ab; Lk
21:34-36
Sun./Domingo Is 2:1-5; Ps 122:1-9; Rom
13:11-14; Mt 24:37-44
Saturday, 5:30 p.m.
Sunday, 8:00 a.m.
Sunday, 10:30 a.m.
Sunday-Spanish-1 p.m.
Monday
Tuesday, 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, 8:30 a.m.
Thursday, 9:00 a.m.
Friday, 8:30 a.m.
Saturday, 5:30 p.m.
Sunday, 8:00 a.m.
Sunday, 10:30 a.m.
Sunday-Spanish-1 p.m.
+Pete Smith by Pat & Tom Tohal
+Clara Baker by Ron & Teri Skelton
+Ronald Mann by Beth Mann & Sons
Pro Populo (For the people of MHR)
No Mass
+Cindy Sleeper Kemper by Kemper Family
+Roy Heartless by Jax Navy Association
Thanksgiving Mass by Juliana Bembo & Friends
+Juan Sr. & Consuela Sorra by Dory Raquipiso
+Pete Smith by Pat & Tom Tohal
+Ann Maglaris by Ron & Terri Skelton
+John Mario Chiofolo by Joe & Jan Chiofolo
Pro Populo (For the people of MHR)
Gospel — The repentant
criminal receives Jesus’
promise of Paradise-Luke
23:35-43
Evangelio — El malhechor arrepentido recibe la
promesa del paraíso de
boca de Jesús-Lucas 23:35
THIS WEEK
Sunday
Youth Ministry Grs. 9-12 6:30 pm
8th Gr. Rel. Ed. 7:00 pm
CCW Seniors Thanksgiving Dinner
Bizier Hall
ICARE 3:00 pm Angels Hall
Monday
RCIA 7:00 pm Angels Hall
Spanish Charismatic Group 7 pm Angels
Hall
Thursday Thanksgiving Day Parish Office Closed
Thanksgiving Mass at 9 am
Friday
Parish Office Closed
In Need of Prayer
Dory Raquipiso, Armando
Reyes, Josh Childers, Juanita
Rall, Alice Fuoco, Kathy & Butch Godbold, Colin
Hof, Eliza Anne Pastorin, Judith Soucie, Christopher Bunker, Romeo Garcia, Kat Cynia Sampilo,
William Phelan, Jan Chiofolo, Kit Carryl, Gloria Adams, Tonya Trythall, Sue Ewald, Lillian Meade,
Cathy Cook, Jim Rose, Kristina M. Bane, Pat Vogel, Kathy Leroux, Sara Fiorani, Edith Medina, Cari
Skelton, Lon & Carol Hagg, Pete Genovese, Tammy Vedabero, Maria Broas Sowell, Ronnie Rose,
Mrs. Phan, Diana Cooper, Anita Doering, Faina
Sobolevsky, Nate Ennis, Ayana Cloer, Patricia
Meisner, Mary Ann Melise, Carolyn Cassidy, Beverly McDaniel, Brandon Harrison, Ed Gilmore, Irene
Mejia, Roberto Ozuna, Joe Chokowski, Joy Powell,
Ryder Rundle, Malee Heck, Vonnie Klinger, Diana
Kanaszka, Wayne Fogle, Laura Kraus, Carl “Mike”
Pulis, Bryson Futch, K’leigh (Griffin) Combs & Franco Eloy Sanchez
Needed each week............................................$15,330.00
Last Sunday’s Offertory ....................................$8,880.50
Debt Reduction ................................................$11,935.20
Congrats to Chili Cook-off winners:
1st place beef chili - Joy Gay Harden
1st Place non beef chili - Mary Cooke & Sharon Nolan
Peoples Choice-Patty Wallace
I Pad Air 2 - Fe Metcalf
Thank YOU to ALL of the par ticipants and ever yone who
had a hand in making the cook-off a success.
Family Choir for Christmas Eve Calling all school
age children and their parents/grandparents to
participate in a “Family Choir” to sing at the 5:30 PM
Christmas Vigil Mass on Christmas Eve. You will be
“re-choired” to attend three brief (approximately 30
minutes), practices: Nov. 27, Dec. 4, and Dec. 11
after 10:30 mass. You DO NOT have to know how to
read music. The songs will be simple Christmas carols and perhaps an easy Children’s song. See Eileen
or email her at [email protected] for more info.
Gift Bearers for Next Sunday
5:30 (Vigil) Mass – Avena, Napoleon
8:00 a.m. – Lim, Aida
10:30 a.m. – Honea, Daniel
BREAD & WINE
ARE DONATED IN
THANKSGIVING FOR
TONY LAMAR’S RECOVERY
BY MAXIMA LAMAR
The Kingdom is HolisƟc Secularism divides our public selves from our private selves. When governments limit
the rights of religious ministries, secularists claim that religious freedom is not harmed be-cause we sƟll have
freedom of worship – we are free in private but not in public. But the kingdom of God calls us to a whole life of
worship and service in the public square. We cannot worship on Sunday and then deny Christ’s teaching in the
way we run our ministries throughout the week.
NaƟonalism, on the other hand, divides our loyalƟes. It is good to love one’s country, but ulƟmate loyalty is due
only to Christ and his kingdom. Ideologies that ask us to put our naƟon above Christ and his Church are incompaƟble with service to the kingdom.
The Kingdom Demands Discipleship We must work every day, with the help of the Holy Spirit, to draw closer
to Jesus. In our own increasingly “post-ChrisƟan” society, we cannot be complacent in our spiritual lives. To
acknowledge the kingship of Christ means that we should dedicate ourselves to prayer, to building up our families and our parish communiƟes, and to bringing healing to a broken world.
The Kingdom is Humble Jesus inaugurates a kingdom that grows through humble acts of service. Even as her
freedom to carry out her minis-tries is threatened, the Church must paƟently conƟnue to serve the poor, educate the young, welcome the migrant, visit the prisoner, heal the sick, bury the dead, and love others.
Solemnity of Christ the King
“The kingdoms of this world at Ɵmes are sustained by arrogance, rivalries and oppression; the reign of Christ is
a ‘kingdom of jusƟce, love and peace.’
For a ChrisƟan, speaking of power and strength means referring to the power of the Cross, and the strength of
Jesus’ love: a love which remains steadfast and com-plete, even when faced with rejecƟon, and it is shown as
the fulfillment of a life expended in the total surren-der of oneself for the benefit of humanity.”
– Angelus Address of Pope Francis - Solemnity of Christ the King, November 22, 2015
“The kingdom, already present and growing in our midst, engages us at every level of our being and reminds us
of the principle of discernment which Pope Paul VI applied to true development: it must be directed to ‘all
men and the whole man’.” – Pope Francis Evangelii Gaudium, 181 More resources from the Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty available at www.usccb.org/freedom **Copyright © 2016, United States Conference
of Catholic Bishops, Washington, DC. All rights reserved. Photo credit: CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz Evangelii
Gaudium, © 2013 Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Used with permission. Homily of Pope Francis, © 2013 Libreria Editrice
Vaticana. Used with permission. Angelus Address, © 2015 Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Used with permission.**
El Reino es holísƟco El secularismo divide nuestro yo público de nuestro yo pri-vado. Cuando los gobiernos limitan los derechos de los mi-nisterios religiosos, los secularistas afirman que la libertad religiosa no se perjudica
porque aún tenemos libertad de culto –somos libres en el ámbito privado, pero no en el pú-blico. Pero el Reino
de Dios nos llama a toda una vida de culto Y servicio en el ámbito público. No podemos rendir culto los domingos y luego negar la enseñanza de Cristo en la manera en que llevamos adelante nuestros ministerios durante
toda la semana. Por otro lado, el nacionalismo divide nuestras lealtades. Es bueno amar nuestro país, pero les
debemos la lealtad mayor solamente a Cristo y a su Reino. Las ideologías que nos pi-den poner nuestra nación
por encima de Cristo y de su Igle-sia no son compaƟbles con el servicio al Reino.
El Reino exige que seamos discípulos
Cada día debemos trabajar, con la ayuda del Espíritu Santo, para acercarnos más a Jesús. En nuestra propia sociedad cada vez más "poscrisƟana", no podemos estar saƟsfechos con nosotros mismos en nuestra vida espiritual.
Reconocer el reinado de Cristo significa que debemos dedicarnos a la oración, a construir familias y nuestras comunidades eclesia-les y a llevar sanación a un mundo destruido.
El Reino es humilde
Jesús inaugura un reino que crece por medio de actos humil-des de servicio. Incluso cuando la libertad de la Iglesia está amenazada e impide llevar a cabo sus servicios, ella debe conƟnuar en forma paciente sirviendo a los
pobres, educan-do a los jóvenes, acogiendo al inmigrante, visitando a los presos, sanando a los enfermos, sepultando a los muertos y amando al prójimo.
Solemnidad de Cristo Rey “Los reinos de este mundo a veces se construyen en la arrogancia, rivalidad,
opresión; el reino de Cristo es un ‘reino de jusƟcia, de amor y de paz’… Reinar cómo Él, significa servir a Dios y
a los hermanos – un servicio que fluye del amor: servir por amor es reinar”. -Papa Franciso Ángelus en la
Solemnidad de Cristo Rey 22 de noviembre de 2015 “El Reino que se anƟcipa y crece entre nosotros lo toca
todo y nos recuerda aquel principio de discernimiento que Pablo VI proponía con relación al verdadero desarrollo: ‘Todos los hombres y todo el hombre’.” –Papa Francisco Evangelii gaudium, 181 ecursos del Ad Hoc Com.
Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe/Nuestro Señor Jesucristo, Rey del Universo
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Fr. Tim and the Parish Staff
would like to wish all of you and your families
a very blessed and happy Thanksgiving
Mass 9 am Thursday Morning
Parish Office CLOSED Thursday & Friday
Join us TODAY, Sun-
MHR Seniors– 50 plus day, November 20th,
Bizier Hall at 2 pm.
All MHR Parishioners
that are 50 years plus are
invited to Share the Harvest & Give Thanks with
fellow parishioners. Just
come. Food will be provided by your Council of
Catholic Women, CCW.
Anyone who would like to donate toward the Thanksgiving Baskets, to be
given to our neighbors in need, contact
Donna Ridgway 904-504-4265. If you
make out a check, please make it out to
St. Vincent de Paul.
Invite someone
The people of
this parish do so many things well, even
exceptionally well. There is an area of
evangelization in which we can-and
MUST-do better. Over the past two
years, encouragement to inactive Catholics by our parishioners has been, as the saying goes,
“between slim and none.” We will begin the journey home
for Christmas for Catholics away from the church with three
sessions in ADVENT, on 5, 15, and 19 December, 7 pm in
Angels’ Hall. Baptized Catholics return most often WHEN
THEY ARE INVITED. You know someone who is waiting for
an invitation—EVANGELIZE!! Call the Parish Office (904-786
-1192) or Peg and Deacon Jack (904-477-7252)
A Message from our MHR St. Vincent de Paul Society
Pope Paul says to "Feed the hungry. Care for those who
have nothing. Do not forget those around the world who are
suffering from lack of food and drinking water." St. Vincent
de Paul Outreach Ministry needs your help in feeding the
needy in Duval County. We are looking for volunteers on
Monday morning from 10 am - 12 pm and Wednesday from
10 pm - 12 pm. Call Donna @ 904-504-4265. Thank you
AROUND OUR DIOCESE
Nov. 20 Closing
Mass for the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy Bishop Felipe J. Estevez will be the main celebrant for the
feast
of
Christ the King 5:00 p.m., Christ the King Catholic Church,, Jax
Nov. 27 Praying for Vocations to the Consecrated Life 3 to 4 p.m., 241 St. George
Street, St. Augustine,
Nov. 29 Groundbreaking Ceremony for Morning Star High School 9:00 a.m. at Morning
Star School, 725 Mickler Road, Jax
Email:
[email protected]
Nov. 30 Cities for Life to End the Death Penalty 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., the Shrine at Mission
Nombre
de
Dios,
St.
Augustine
Dec. 3 Morning prayer with Mother St. Teresa
of Calcutta 9:00 a.m. to noon, Sisters of St.
Joseph, 241 St. George Street, St. Augustine.