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SEPTEMBER

WHATS HAPPENING THIS WEEK

28 Saturday

Volunteer Appreciation Celebration, Mass at 3:00 p.m., reception & dinner at 4:00 p.m. By invitation only. (See Intermezzo events for details)

29 Sunday

Feast of St. Francis Liturgies (See Intermezzo events for details)

Please take this bulletin home with you as well as the many brochures that advertise the programs and services of the Shrine. Thank you for being with us today. Franciscan friars and staff St. Anthony Shrine community

Welcome to the St. Anthony Shrine Community. All are welcome here. No one is excluded.

Feast of St. Francis Liturgies (See Intermezzo events for details) Prison Ministry, SCHC, 8:15 to 11:30 a.m. Blessing of the Animals, 2:00 p.m. (See Intermezzo events for details.)

REGULAR EVENTS
Monday Tuesday

30 Monday

OCTOBER

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

01 Tuesday

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

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.

02 Wednesday

Faith Encounters the Ecological Crisis Just Matters study module, session #1, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., 2nd fl. classroom (See Intermezzo events for details)

03 Thursday
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Fellowship & Fiesta, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. (See ad for details.)

Seniors Mass 10:00 a.m., Exercise 10:30 a.m., Program 11:00 a.m., lunch Noon

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

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

SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES

Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Jerome St. Thrse of the Child Jesus The Holy Guardian Angels St. Francis of Assisi; First Friday Blessed Virgin Mary; First Saturday

04 Friday

05 Saturday

Feast of St. Francis Liturgies (See Intermezzo events for details)

Transitus, 5:15 p.m. (See Intermezzo events for details)

Centering Prayer Group, Noon to 1:30 p.m.

New Eucharistic Ministers Workshop, 10 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

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Wednesday, October 2, 2013. 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. 4th floor Clare Room Pre-registration required by Noon Oct. 1

Fellowship & Fiesta!!

Events This Week

READINGS FOR THE WEEK

Tuesday: Wednesday: Thursday: Monday:

A time for small group discussion, Bible study, reflection and fellowship in a relaxed setting. Potluck supper - food will be provided courtesy of participants. Contact Dr. Jackie Stewart at 617-542-6440, ext. 143 or email SAS.Evang@gmail.com. Leave your name & telephone no. and (optional) what food/ dessert/beverage items, if any, you plan on bringing.
Offered by Evangelization

Friday: Saturday: Sunday:

Zec 8:1-8; Ps 102:16-21, 29, 22-23; Lk 9:46-50 Zec 8:20-23; Ps 87:1b-7; Lk 9:51-56 Neh 2:1-8; Ps 91:1-6, 10-11; Mt 18:1-5, 10 Neh 8:1-4a, 5-6, 7b-12; Ps 19:8-11; Lk 10:1-12 Bar 1:15-22; Ps 79:1b-5, 8-9; Lk 10:13-16 Bar 4:5-12, 27-29; Ps 69:33-37; Lk 10:17-24 Hb 1:2-3; 2:2-4; Ps 95:1-2, 6-9; 2 Tm 1:6-8, 13-14; Lk 17:5-10

Cover art: St. Francis of Assisi

Pray for Peace in the Middle East!

Franciscan Intermezzo Calendar

September 28 - October 4, 2013
Feast of St. Francis Celebrated at All Weekend Liturgies
Saturday, September 28, 2013 4:00, 4:15, and 5:30* pm Sunday, September 29, 2013 6:00, 7:30, 9:00, 10:00*, 11:15* am; 12:30*, 4:00* & 5:30* pm

Faith Encounters the Ecological Crisis

JustMatters Study Module (Peace & Social Justice) 8 Tuesdays, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. October 1, 15; November 12, 26; December 10 (2013) January 7, 21; February 4, (2014) 2nd Floor Classroom Faith Encounters the Ecological Crisis identifies the 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. (See more detail below.) Cost: $18 for book on Amazon.com, $5 per session

Volunteer Appreciation Mass and Dinner

Saturday, September 28, 2013 3:00 pm Mass in Second Floor Church 4:00 pm Reception & Dinner in ShrineAuditorium This is an invitation-only event to honor our dedicated volunteers who donate their time and talent to support the Shrines 30+ Ministries and programs throughout the year.

Transitus
Thursday, October 3, 2013, 5:15 pm 2nd Floor Church Join the Franciscan Friars for this moving and very special Franciscan service about the last hours in the life of St. Francis. A Wine and Cheese Reception will follow in the Shrine Auditorium. (The regularly scheduled 5:15 pm Mass will be celebrated in the 1st Floor Church on this day.)

Blessing of the Animals on Arch Street

Sunday, September 29, 2013, 2:00 pm In celebration of the Feast of St. Francis, you and your pets are invited to our traditional Franciscan Blessing of Animals. All leashed or crated, well-behaved animals are welcome. There will be a general blessing followed by an individual blessing for each animal. If you are unable to bring your pet, please bring photographs or ashes.
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Feast of St. Francis Celebrated at All Liturgies

Friday, October 4, 2013 6:00, 7:00, 10:00, and 11:45* am; 12:30*, 1:15* and 5:15 pm * Indicates music Mass.
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The Canticle

Franciscana

Volume 32 No. 10 October 2013 a monthly publication of St. Anthony Shrine

back to days when he looked to her for everything. It was she who recognized the excessive cruelty imposed by her husband when he imprisoned in their house a son just returned from prison, pushing him back into an atmosphere she had worked so hard to make him forget now that he was home. Home should not be another prison.

During early times, St. Francis possessed no clear picture of what he wanted this movement he was spreading to be. Stronger feelings came from what he did not want it to be. One specific target for avoidance was the monasticism of his time. And more specifically, the organizing glue that held the monastery together the expression of authority at the top and obedience at the bottom. Monastic authority came based upon the paternal principle: the abbot as father and the monks as sons. This father-son relationship constituted the model of how those in power should exercise their authority.

As a Mother Loves

Hidden quietly in the background of many story lines of those early years is the figure of his mother. With her he enjoyed something very different. It was she who nursed him back to health when he returned home broken from the war and his imprisonment. During that period, mother and son shared moments that must have drawn both of them
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When Francis began his spiritual journey, he entered on a path that lay beyond his fathers depth. Misunderstandings led to a public scandal before the whole town when father brought son before the bishop. It scarred both of them and their future relationship. Afterward, whenever father met son in the streets of the city, he would curse him. On Francis part, when it came to choosing an organizational principle, he refused to agree to the monastic form of father-son authority.

Anyone who has read a life of St. Francis knows of his tragic separation from his father. The biographies hint at how the father spoiled his son during youthful years. Of how he provided money for various escapes the young Francis ventured on with his friends. Of how he invested financially in Francis quest for military glory and knighthood. It was his fathers money that bought his freedom when he lay sick in a prison in Perugia.

From his reaction to monastic structures and to the toxic atmosphere developed with his father, Francis saw the organizational glue holding his religious community together in a different light from other organizations around him. He insisted the dynamic of authority and obedience to be based upon the maternal rather than paternal principle the approach of mother to son rather than father to son. The fraternal structure of lesser brothers should be based instead on a mother-son model. He sought a structure whereby those in leadership positions must look to this mother-son relationship as a guideline for how they are to relate to those friars in their care. And so when the Gospel urges Christians to love each other, Francis envisions that gesture in maternal terms among his friars. In caring for friars who are sick, the Founder counsels in his Rule of 1223, If a mother loves and cares for her son according to the flesh, how much more diligently must someone love and care for his brother according to the Spirit. Here the mother-son connection becomes the model and jumping-off place for how friars are to care for their brothers who are ill. The care should be modeled on a mothers love, not a fathers love.

This feminine approach to authority seems to be sought to softened the jagged edges of power that man-to-man confrontations can take. Francis appeals to the saying St. Matthews Gospel puts on the lips of Jesus: You know how those who exercise authority among the Gentiles lord it over them; their great ones make their importance felt. It cannot be like that with you. Anyone among you who aspires to greatness must serve the rest, and whoever wants to rank first among you must serve the needs of all (Matthew 20, 25-27).

With this approach, there lies a challenge to those who must assume positions of leadership within the fraternity. Francis assures them they have been empowered to empower the friars in their care.
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In a text from his official and later Rule of 1223, the Poverello seems to have made a mistake in what he has written. It takes a second glance to realize he is most intense in what he is asking. In the correction of friars the ministers in charge may speak and deal with them as masters with their servants. . . That part seems clear until one reads the rest of the sentence which shows the writer has switched roles in what he is saying, . . for so it must be that the ministers are the servants of all the brothers. This implies the corrected friars be treated as the master and the friar armed with authority approach him as would a servant. Here we see empowering at work.

which is based on the accident of sexual identity, are all volatile ingredients coming to a boil in our cooking up of a culture truly representative of the main currents of public opinion.

Jacques Dalarun, in his book Francis and the Feminine, summarizes this unique approach to institutional living when he writes: Since the place of father is taken, justly by the Father, the relationship which Francis most readily advances to describe and characterize relations between the brothers, other than the fraternal bond itself, is that between a mother and her son (p. 56).

The discipline of historical interpretation has for the most part been established by men explaining a mans world. For millennia it has been the chronicle of wars and the effects of wars. Peace was a necessary surcease of conflict to allow for adequate preparation for future wars. It was a time for women to dress the wounds and comfort the frustrations affecting the warriors. The monastery was indeed a masculine bastion, wherein the battle for salvation was fought a school for the Lords service, as St. Benedict put it. Francis and his Friars preached a religion of restoration, albeit through a rigorous regimen of healing penance, by which a cure of the malady of sin might come about. The father usually seeks to win; the mother seeks to win over.

In this statement, Dalarun merely echoes what Francis himself wrote in his early Rule (1221) when instructed his friars: Let each one confidently make known his need to another that the other might discover what is needed and minister to him. Let each one love and care for his brother as a mother loves and cares for her son in those matters in which God has given him the grace.

To win over the sinner to the way that is Christ: this is the aim of all who truly preach the Gospel. To win over through kindness and understanding, by bringing about a surrender, not in the face of force, but by the grace of free conversion. Francis was full of the life of Christ and he spiritually gave birth to a new progeny in the Church, the Friars Minor. He experienced the pangs of that birth and, with the same spirit of God leading him onward, was able to renew by love a peace no war could achieve.

Fr. Emeric's choice of subject this month gives us indeed good food for thought. In todays world we have a Pope named Francis, a movement to bring the maternal principle under greater scrutiny and an ever-deepening study of the negative influence of patriarchal hegemony over the development of history. The rle of women in the military, the growing number of single mothers, the changing attitudes toward gender identity and a refusal in general to admit a limit of place or authority in any and all institutions marking human dimension
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Response

What does Francis (he of Assisi and he who is Bishop of Rome) say to a world in the grip of wars our fathers gave us? Certainly that the Church is a Mother who loves and nourishes us even though she speaks and acts through leaders who are assertively patriarchal. Undoubtedly that we must look beyond the external appearance of the Kingdom to see the Spirit doing a mothers work of empathetic comfort and direction. Fathers expect while mothers await the fruitful outcome of their progeny. If the Spirit be followed, however, the outcome, though fruitful, may devolve in ways beyond expectation, well worthy of the most patient undying hope.

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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. 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. Thomas Conway, OFM, PhD Executive Director TBD, OFM Assistant Executive Director of Ministries

MINISTRIES OF SAINT ANTHONY SHRINE WORSHIP/YOUR SPIRITUAL HOME RECONCILIATION MUSIC LAZARUS PROGRAM WELLNESS CENTER SAINT ANTHONY BREAD FOR THE POOR BREAD ON THE COMMON FRANCISCAN SPIRITUAL COMPANIONSHIP MINISTRY THE KIDS PROGRAM SENIORS ON ARCH STREET MYCHAL JUDGE CENTER FOR RECOVERY FRANCISCAN FOOD CENTER EVANGELIZATION GOOD WORD: (617) 542-0502 HISPANIC MINISTRY FRANCISCAN ADULT SCHOOL PIETA MINISTRY 20S/30S BOSTON COME HOME PROGRAM PRISON MINISTRY LGBT MINISTRY GRIEF MINISTRY
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Highly Sensitive Person Workshop

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

Upcoming Events Pieta Ministry Serving the Spiritual

Sunday, October 6, 2013 Join us at our 10 a.m. Mass Followed by a Coffee with other grieving parents. [Or, if you prefer, join us for the Coffee Social only]

Monthly Mass and Coffee Social

Needs of Grieving Parents

Are you a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)? Workshop goal: To identify: I am an HSP; I am not alone; Its okay. Have you ever been told Youre being too sensitive? Do you wonder why you seem to be keyed into everything that is going on around you? Are you often overwhelmed or over-stimulated by your environment? Do you wonder why you feel so deeply? Join Michael Parise, trained life coach and spiritual counselor of 30 years experience, for this workshop! It is designed for those who comprise 20% of the human population as Highly Sensitive Persons, and for those who love them. Michael will help you determine if you are HSP, share some of the challenges highly sensitive persons face, and offer some meaningful ways to cope better with being or living with an HSP. Contact: Dr. Jackie Stewart, 617-542-6440, ext. 143 or email SAS.Evang@gmail.com.
Offered by Franciscan Adult School

Join other parents in a warm and comforting place for a short Scripture reading, discussion, fellowship, and refreshments. All are Welcome! Contact: Fr. Jim Czerwinski, OFM, 617-542-6440, ext. 215.

The Truth will set you free

Members of the Shrine Community who are in their twenties (20s) and thirties (30s), are invited to join us for the following event. RSVP to sas20s30s@stanthonyshrine.org

20s/30s Boston

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

The Franciscan Spirituality of Thomas Merton*: Changing Hearts, Living Faith

Annual Weekend Retreat

Participants will learn how to come to true happiness by fully believing Jesus truths, and applying them to their everyday lives. Contact: Dr. Jackie Stewart, St. Anthony Shrine, 617-542-6440, ext. 143 or email SAS.Evang@gmail.com.
Offered by Franciscan Adult School

October 11 13, 2013 at Glastonbury Abbey Retreat leader; Fr. Dan Horan, OFM Cost: $145 per person includes two nights accommodations, all meals. $50 deposit required. Final payment due Monday, Sept. 30.

20s/30s Boston Young Adults Second Sunday Social

Wine & Cheese Edition
Sunday, October 13, 2013 After 4:00 and 5:30 p.m. Masses (second floor classroom)

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Remembering Well: The Healing Journey of Grief The Bereavement Workshop

more Upcoming Events

Inconvenient Film Series

After the Rain

This workshop is NOT intended to be a support group but rather an opportunity for those interested to come to a deeper understanding how death and grieving has been pushed the into the outer boundaries of our lives.
Contact: Dr. Jackie Stewart, St. Anthony Shrine, 617542-6440, ext. 143 or email SAS.Evang@gmail.com. Offered by Franciscan Adult School

Our American culture has succeeded in transforming the reality of death into a foreign and alienation experience. A number of logical reasons can be advanced to account for the death-denying society we live in. So often the absence of close familial support is a missing link for the healing of many. The grieving person feels even more alone with no one to turn to nor to share their pain with.

Grieving is the most misunderstood and neglected growth process a person can go through. For many years religious and spiritual leaders have looked at loss as an opportunity for spiritual development. Yet our modern life process has shaped our understanding that moving through the healing jour of grief has become so private and misunderstood that is has become a taboo subject.

October 12, 2013, 10:00 a.m. to 12 noon 2nd fl classroom Presenter: Fr. Joe Quinn, OFM Cost: $5

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

The bulk of the film is the enclosed argument and confrontation among the three young people, facing all of the ugliness and prejudice that crippled South Africa. When the three are at the peak of being threatened by the conflict, Emma is accidentally shot and the manner in which Steph and Joseph face this with its touching outcome makes this an indelible memory for the viewer.

The film opens when the main characters were children and caught up in the marked division between whites and blacks that interfered with their childhood games and friendships because of the cruel prejudices imposed by their parents. In 1972 Steph, a conflicted Afrikaans soldier, is in love with Emma, a dancer for the theater. Steph is due to depart with his brigade and spends his final nights with Emma: Emma promises to wait for him, pleading with Steph to come back alive. Steph leaves and Emma returns to her job, a theater where the lighting manager is a black man Joseph. One evening Joseph aids Emma with her car and Emma in turn offers Joseph refuge: Joseph is without a place to stay except in the streets. The fact that a white woman and a black man even talk is dangerous and it is with great hesitation that Joseph accepts Emmas kindness. Gradually the two become true friends, able to dissolve the disparity that is destroying the nation. But when Emma finally and innocently offers Joseph to sleep in her bed instead of on the floor, the crisis occurs: Steph has deserted the army and returns home to Emmas flat and finds the two in bed: he thinks the worst and becomes enraged.

Sat., Oct. 12, 2013 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., 2nd fl classroom Cost: $5

Parents and Family of LGBT Support Group

Sundays, 1:45 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. October 13 & 27, 2013 November 10 & 24, 2013 Assisi auditorium stage classroom

siblings, or friends of LGBT. Discussions and current DVDs are shown in the effort to deepen the understanding of LGBT persons while increasing their acceptance, trust and love.

We clearly recognize the importance of the roles played by the parent[s], family and friends of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. A designated support group has been established to assist those who love and care about their children,

Contact: Fr. Joe Quinn, OSF, 617-542-6440, ext. 239 or email LGBT@stanthonyshrine.org
Offered by LGBT MInistry of St. Anthony Shrine

All parents, families, siblings (over 20 yrs age) and friends of LGBT persons are invited to participate.