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Anthony Shrine
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& Ministry Center

Sunday, August 18 Saturday, August 24, 2013

WHATS HAPPENING THIS WEEK AUGUST

Dear Sisters and Brothers,

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Centering Prayer Group, Noon to 1:30 p.m. Prison Ministry, SCHC, 8:15 to 11:30 a.m. No scheduled events No scheduled events No scheduled events Russian Cruise pilgrims final meeting, 2:00 p.m. (See ad for details.) Mens Faith Works Spiritualit Group, 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. (See ad for details.) 20s/30s Life of Pi movie night at Shrine, 6:00 p.m. (See ad for details.)

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On behalf of the Franciscan Friarsand our dedicated lay Partnerswho minister here at St. Anthony Shrine & Ministry Center, I sincerely welcome you. Please be sure to take one of our Bulletins home with you after Mass. It will list all the various Masses and programs available in the coming week(s). We are honored that you chose to worship your Loving God here with us. Fr. Jim Kelly, OFM Guardian and Executive Director
REGULAR EVENTS
Monday Tuesday

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A.A. Step Meeting 5:45 p.m. Seniors Crafts Group 10:30 a.m. A.A. Open Meeting Noon Mens Cursillo Reunion 5:15 p.m. Wednesday Remembrance Day for Deceased (3rd Wed.) All Masses Womens 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 Noon Mens 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 WEEK

Tuesday: Wednesday: Thursday: Friday: Monday:

Sunday:

Saturday:

Jgs 2:11-19; Ps 106:34-37, 39-40, 43ab, 44; Mt 19:16-22 Jgs 6:11-24a; Ps 85:9, 11-14; Mt 19:23-30 Jgs 9:6-15; Ps 21:2-7; Mt 20:1-16 Jgs 11:29-39a; Ps 40:5, 7-10; Mt 22:1-14 Ru 1:1, 3-6, 14b-16, 22; Ps 146:5-10; Mt 22:34-40 Rv 21:9b-14; Ps 145:10-13, 17-18; Jn 1:45-51 Is 66:18-21; Ps 117:1-2; Heb 12:5-7, 1113; Lk 13:22-30

SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES

Sunday: Monday: Tuesday: Wednesday: Thursday: Friday: Saturday:

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time St. John Eudes St. Bernard St. Pius X The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary St. Rose of Lima St. Bartholomew

Pray for Peace in the Middle East!

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Cover: Earth Fire Space, from Wall Papers US. I have come to set the earth on fire... (Gospel) Saint Anthony Shrine The Church on Arch Street

August 22, 2013, 2:00 p.m. 2nd fl. classroom

Russian River Cruise meeting

Events This Week

Final Meeting of pilgrims for Russian River Cruise with Pam Strand, travel agent.
Contact: Fr. Raphael Bonanno, OFM, 617-5426440

This is a great opportunity for men to come together and grow in their spiritual lives and deepen their personal relationship with God thorough prayer and faith sharing. (Matt. 18:20) when two or more are gathered in my name I am in their midst. For more information, contact Bob Giers at 617542-6440, ext. 198.
Offered by the Franciscan Spiritual Companionship Ministry

Thursday, August 22. 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. 4th fl. Francis room Facilitated by Bob Giers, csd & Fr. Jim Czerwinski, OFM

Mens Faith Works Spirituality Group

If you are a man between 21 and 38 years of age considering a religious vocation, we invite you to join us here at the Shrine on Sept. 20, 21 and 22 to get a taste of Franciscan life and ministry. Youll meet our friar community one of the largest in our Province and share in conversation, meals, and prayer. Youll also learn about our great variety of ministries, including the Food Center, Bread on the Common, Kids Program, 20s and 30s Young Adult Group, Seniors Program, Wellness Center, Prison Ministry, and many more. There will also be an opportunity for quiet time and reflection. Cant spend the whole weekend? Make a day out of it and join us for Saturday only! For further information or to register for this event, please contact the Franciscan Vocation Ministry, Franciscan Friars of Holy Name Province, at 1-800677-7788 or vocation@hnp.org. Or, if you prefer, visit our website at BeAFranciscan.org (Upcoming Events). Register by Sept. 13.
For more information, please contact sas20s30s@stanthonyshrine.org.

Interested in Franciscan Life? Join us for a Weekend and Get to Know Us Better!

Upcoming Events

20s/30s Boston Young Adults

Thursday, August 22, 2013, 6:00 p.m. 2nd fl. classroom Followed by discussion. For more information, please contact sas20s30s@stanthonyshrine.org Join the 20s/30s Young Adult group on Facebook and be the first to get information on our upcoming events. Just scan your mobile device here.

20s/30s Boston Young Adults Life of Pi Movie night at Shrine

Coffee Social

Sunday, August 25 after the 10 & 11:15 a.m. Masses. (2nd fl. classroom)

Catholics & Muslims working together for the Common Good Core team planning meeting
Sunday, August 25. 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Offsite - Peace Islands Institute Note: This interfaith group grew out of the recently completed Just Matters study module In the Spirit of St. Francis and the Sultan that began last Fall under the auspices of the Franciscan Adult School. See next page for a community-wide event.
St. Anthony Shrine Just Matters Group Peace & Social Justice & Peace Islands Institute/Turkish Cultural Center

The Damietta Project

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In the Footprints of Francis and the Sultan A Model for Peacemaking

Come meet some of our Muslim partners... a Franciscan Intermezzo event

Thurs., September 19, 2013, 5:30 to 7:00 p.m., Assisi auditorium stage classroom film & discussion Facilitators: members of The Damietta Project Catholics and Muslims working together for the common good Cost: Free will ($5 suggested) Pre-registration requested by Mon., Sept. 16

Faith Encounters the Ecological Crisis (A Just Matters Study Module

Every day, we experience the many ways the ecology of our communities is changing and even breaking down toxins in our air, waters, and food, extinction rates unseen since the end of the dinosaur age, changes in weather patterns, diseases impacting our forests, the rise in human diseases like cancer, asthma, and diabetes, invasive species, and more.

a Franciscan Intermezzo event

Contact: Dr. Jackie Stewart, St. Anthony Shrine, 617542-6440, ext. 143 or email SAS.Evang@gmail.com. Offered by Franciscan Adult School

St. Francis of Assisis encounter with Sultan Malek al-Kamil is one of the most important and instructive events in the life of this mendicant friar. Adopting an attitude of respect and dialogue, rather than selfrighteousness and vehemence, he and his companion, Illuminato, by all accounts engaged in a sharing of faith with the sultan and his court, each presenting his belief in the one God from his own perspective. Based on one of the lesser-known stories from the life of Francis of Assisi, In the Footprints of Francis and the Sultan presents a paradigm for meeting those whose way of life is unknown, those who are other, those who have been demonized. This peacemaking paradigm uses the story of the 1219 encounter between Francis and the Sultan to help us negotiate our difficult interfaith encounters and other misunderstandings and hostility between peoples. Damietta Project members will share how we delved into the encounter between Francis and the Sultan and discovered tools to build trust and relationships in bold, courageous, respectful ways. Thus, together, we hope to make a contribution to bringing forth the gift of Gods peace and lessening the violence in our world. With Francis and the Sultan as teachers, understanding, courtesy, collaboration, and even friendship can reach new heights. Such is the way of peacemaking.

The module has a strong focus on Catholic social teaching and asks very big questions about our priorities, our moral values, what we owe the world now and the future generations that come after us, and what God intended for this creation. The material is challenging and likely to raise some troubling questions and emotions. This is good! It is necessary! It is also necessary that participants enter the process with the desire to listen to one another and to learn from one another.

Faith Encounters the Ecological Crisis identifies that ways in which we are already living beyond the biocapacity of the planet and challenges participants to identify elements of a spirituality for living through the ecological crisis. Participants will view several films, engage in small and large group discussion, and meet with several guest speakers as they consider various aspects of the ecological crisis. Participants will also identify ways to live beyond the end of this world with a rich and vibrant Earth community still intact, still able to support life.

By the end of the process, participants will have seen what the crisis has to teach us about how to live faithfully in this moment in time, brought Gospel values to the forefront of their reflections on the state of the Earth, gained a sense of empowerment within the context of community, and explored options for making a commitment to action.

Pray for Peace in the Middle East!

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Contact: Dr. Jackie Stewart, St. Anthony Shrine, 617542-6440, ext. 143 or email SAS.Evang@gmail.com. Offered by Franciscan Adult School Saint Anthony Shrine The Church on Arch Street

Series of Eight Tuesday sessions (2 hrs. each) 2013: Oct. 1, 15; Nov. 12, 26; Dec. 10 2014: Jan. 7, 21; Feb. 4 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. 2nd floor classroom Pre-registration required by Monday, Sept. 16 to order books & receive preparatory materials. Cost: $5 per session. Plus $15 for books.

Saturday, October 5, 2013 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Leaders: Fr.Frank McHugh, OFM & Worship Committee

New Eucharistic Ministers Workshop

The Shack book discussions

Preview more September & October Events Franciscan Adult School/Evangelization

Saturday, October 19, 2013 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Plus A follow-on practicum session of 2 hours to be arranged. Leaders: Fr. Emeric Meier, OFM & Worship Committee

New Lectors Workshop

In the Footprints of Francis and the Sultan A Model for Peacemaking

Facilitators: Fr. Richard Flaherty, OFM & Dr. Jackie Stewart (See ad for details.) Part 1: Wed. Sept. 18, 2013, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. & Part 2: Tues., Sept. 24, 2013, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., 2nd fl classroom Cost: $5/session

Most new Worship Ministers start by serving one or two Masses per month. Once you are comfortable in the Ministry, you may volunteer to serve more frequently. Every Lector and Eucharistic Minister needs to complete a training session before being commissioned to serve. These training sessions happen only twice a year, so be sure to sign up now! Registration is requested by Monday, September 30, 2013. To register for these workshops, please fill out form found in the lobbies of the Shrine or email worship@stanthonyshrine.org. Questions? Contact Fr. Frank McHugh via email or at 617-542-6440, ext. 170.
Offered by the Franciscan Adult School

As a Lector, youll prepare and then proclaim the readings at the Liturgy. As a Eucharistic Minister, you will help serve the Body and Blood of Christ to the gathered community.

For new Worship Ministers, a program of theology and practicum and public commissioning for service. We need your help! There are fifty Eucharistic celebrations every week at the Shrine, drawing thousands of people to worship in Downtown Crossing.

Masses on Saturday, October 26 at 4 p.m. & Sunday, October 27 at 10 a.m.

Commissioning following successful completion of the workshop and practicum:

Thurs., Sept. 19, 2013, 5:30 to 7:00 p.m., Assisi auditorium stage classroom film & discussion Cost: Free will ($5 suggested) Facilitators: members of The Damietta Project Catholics and Muslims working together for the common good (See ad for details.)

The Truth will set you free

Presenter: Bill Sawyer Tuesdays, Oct. 8, 15, 22, 29; Nov. 5, 12, 19, 26 12:15 to 1:15 p.m., 2nd fl classroom Cost: Free will ($10/session suggested) Come to one or many sessions.

Highly Sensitive Person Workshop

Presenter: Michael Parise Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013, 5:30 to 7:00 p.m., 2nd fl classroom Cost: Free will

Bereavement Workshop Grief Support Group

Fr. Joe Quinn, OFM Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013, 10 a.m. to Noon, 2nd fl. classroom Cost: $5. Fr. Joe Quinn, OFM, Grief Ministry Mondays, 5:30 to 6:45 p.m., Oct. 21, 28; Nov. 4, 11, 18; Nov. 25 (Mass), Clare room Contact: Fr. Joe, 617-542-6440, ext. 239

Inconvenient Film Series (Cost: $5/film)

For My Father, Sat., Sept. 14, 2013, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., 2nd fl classroom (See ad for details.) After the Rain, Sat., Oct. 12, 2013,1:30 to 3:30 p.m., 2nd fl classroom Sin Nombre, Sat., Nov. 16, 2013, 1:45 to 3:30 p.m., Assisi auditorium stage classroom The Other Son, Sat., Nov. 30, 2013, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., Assisi auditorium stage classroomi Like Stars on Earth, Sat., Dec. 14, 2013, 12:30 to 3:30 p.m., 2nd fl classroom
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Masses The Arch Street Band
SATURDAY AFTERNOON VIGIL MASSES ** Music

Second Floor Chapel 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. Second Floor Chapel
LEGAL HOLIDAY MASSES

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

Second Floor Chapel

First Floor Chapel

4:15 p.m.

SUNDAY MASSES

6:00 a.m. 7:00 a.m. 8:00 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 Tuesdays: St. Anthony Devotions Wednesdays: Spanish Mass - 5:15 p.m. Thursdays: St. Jude Devotions MISA EN ESPAOL Cada mircoles a las 5:15 de la tarde
SATURDAY MASSES

Celebrated in Second Floor Chapel

WEEKDAY MASSES

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. CONTACT US: Phone: 1-617-542-6440 Fax: 1-617-542-4225 Website: http://www.StAnthonyShrine.org Address: 100 Arch Street Downtown Crossing Boston, MA 02110

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Celebrated in Second Floor Chapel 8:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. 12:00 Noon 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. Benediction (First Floor Chapel) Weekdays: 5:00 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays: 3:30 p.m. Vespers Sundays: 3:15 p.m.
EXECUTIVE STAFF

Holy Rosary of Mary Sundays: 2:45 p.m. Chaplet of Divine Mercy Sundays: 3:00 p.m.

Fr. James Patrick Kelly, OFM, PhD Guardian and Executive Director Fr. Brian Cullinane, OFM Assistant Executive Director of Ministries

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Spirituality of the Readings

20th Sunday of Ordinary Time C Reading I: Jeremiah 38:4-6, 8-10 Responsorial Psalm: 40:2, 3, 4, 18 Reading II: Hebrews 12:1-4 Gospel: Luke 12:49-53

Spirituality of the Readings

A Furious Love

increasing certainly that she will put him, not merely down a cistern as soldiers did Jeremiah in the First reading, not just outside the gates and walls, but right straight into the jaws of death. It is a baptism, he says, and he wants it. He shouts to his disciples that he has come to set the earth on firejust like the blazing lightning wants to tonight. How great is my anguish until it is accomplished, he says.

How sweet of old earth to rain down abundance so fiercely.

I sit on a screened-in porch in Wisconsin, where I am making retreat. I listen to the delicious, drenching sounds of this huge rain, splattering and slapping the earth. Is it friend or foe? For sure such a storm could take me down if I were silly enough to be walking in it. Its violence is driven mainly by its need to get water out of the skies and into the earth as fast as possible. No intention of harming anything. But I remember the floods in New Orleans and New York and feel a twinge of fright.

Is Jesus the storm or is he the stormed upon? Both, I think. He is filled with the Spirit of God and he cannot wait to let that Spirit flow. But he must stand in the pounding rain too. He will not run away. He walks into a continuous storm that has by no means reached its apex.

No wonder he is distraught. Love is not just sweetness and light, it is the dark and pounding rain of peoples emphatic no as well.

The rain just ignores me. In fact it redoubles its efforts. Its huge sound gets huger, like a swell of applause.

But why so furious a love, one that is so sweetly intended but so able to hurt? do not know. Maybe tough love is what keeps our planet in bloom. Hopkins addressed God as Father and fondler of heart thou hast wrung: Hast thy dark descending and most art merciful then.

rain like this carries goodness for the tender, tough earth, I know this. Comfort sighs deep within the storms rough pounding, and big branches bow their tousled heads to receive their cleansing and their nourishment.

How could Jesus speak Gods Word from a criminals cross? Yet he does.

I think of the First reading again. There, Jeremiah is literally stuck in the mud. He had prophesied too truly and too many times. They threw him into an empty cistern with just enough mud for him to sink into. ow could he prophesy from the midst of the mud?

The rains pour down. I see a single lamp across the lake showing through it all. Is this a porch-light of welcome? I am warmed by its glow. But as I look directly, it surrenders itself as just an old, white piece of leaf that has caught in the screen and reflects light from my lamp inside. I play a game. I shift my eyes up and it is a lantern. I look back and it is a remnant of leaf-life. Back, forth. Which is it really? I take comfort, since, of course, it is both. It is a lantern and it is close to home.
Fr. John Foley, S. J. Copyright 2013, The Center for Liturgy at Saint Louis University. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Jesus is headed into that darkness in Lukes Gospel this Sunday. He is on his way to Jerusalem. He loves her and her people, and wants to shower abundance upon them. But he knows with
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You are invited to write a note to the author of this reflection: Fr. John Foley, S. J. (johnbfoley@yahoo.com)

And so they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern of Prince Malchiah, letting him down with ropes. (First reading) Artwork: Marc Chagall, Jeremiah in the Pit, 1957

To register contact: Dr. Jackie Stewart, St. Anthony Shrine, 617-542-6440, ext. 143 or email SAS.Evang@gmail.com. Offered by Franciscan Adult School

The kind that are provocative, inviting discussion

Inconvenient Film Series For My Father

The Shack by William P. Young book discussion - 2 sessions

a Franciscan Intermezzo event

However, with the deadly load of explosives still strapped to him, he must spend 48 hours in the city, caught between the men that sent him who can blow up his bomb remotely, the Israeli police patrolling the streets and his new-found companions. Spending this time with Keren and his new friends, Terek discovers the spark of life returning to fill his soul, but when the weekend ends, Terek must make the decision of his life.

Terek, a Palestinian forced on a suicide mission in Tel Aviv to redeem his father's honor, is given a second chance when the fuse on his explosive vest fails to detonate. Forced to spend the weekend in Tel Aviv awaiting its repair, Terek must live amongst the people he was planning to kill. To his surprise he connects with several Israelis on the outskirts of society, including the beautiful Keren, who has cut off contact with her Orthodox family and upbringing. With nothing to lose, Terek and Keren open up to one another, and an unlikely love blooms between two isolated and damaged individuals, raised to be enemies.

September 14, 2013*, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. 2nd fl classroom Cost: $5.

Part 1: Wed., Sept. 18, 2013, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. & Part 2: Tues., Sept. 24, 2013, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. 2nd fl classroom Facilitators: Fr. Richard Flaherty, OFM & Dr. Jackie Stewart Cost: $5 per session Book must be read before joining the group for meaningful discussion.

Mackenzie Allen Phillipss youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation, and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later, in this midst of his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change his life forever. Part 1, narrative and personal reality, will focus on the story as presented in Chapters 1 - 4, and put these events in dialogue with our own life experiences. Part 2, spirituality and theology, will examine the ways the Persons of the Trinity are presented and how these images might or might not intersect with our own images of and relationships with God.

*Yom Kippur, Jewish Day of Atonement begins Sundown, Friday, Sept. 13, 2013

2015 Holy Land Pilgrimage

Budget Suggestion: Start your Pilgrimage Club, (recommend saving $70/wk pp beginning Sept. 2013 thru Dec. 2014). To get on our interest list, please contact Dr. Jackie Stewart, SAS.Evang@gmail.com or 617-542-6440, ext. 143.
Offered by Franciscan Adult School

Join us on our 2015 Holy Land Pilgrimage! Leaders: Dr. Jackie Stewart & Fr. Gene Pistacchio, OFM (Dates & Costs TBA)

Not too early to Plan Ahead