C H U R C H O F T H E E P I P H A N Y

CHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY

CHURCH ADDRESS 8235 S.W. 57 Avenue Miami, Florida 33143 RECTORY/MAILING ADDRESS 8081 S.W. 54 Court Miami, Florida 33143 Telephone: 305.667.4911 Fax: 305.667.8067 info@epiphanycatholicchurch.comepiphanycatholicchurch.com

SCHOOL Sister Margaret Fagan, IHM, Principal Ms. Ana Oliva, Vice Principal 5557 S.W. 84 Street Miami, Florida 33143 Telephone: 305.667.5251 Fax: 305.667.6828 epiphanycatholicschool.com CONVENT Sister Carmen Teresa, IHM, Superior Telephone: 305.667.2144

MINISTRY OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION & PASTORAL SERVICES Mrs. Isabel Prellezo, Director Telephone: 305.665.0037 MINISTRY OF MUSIC Mr. Thomas Schuster, Organist Mr. Georgi Danchev, Choirmaster Mr. Eddie Valdéz, Cantor Telephone: 305.667.4911

Monsignor Jude O’Doherty, Pastor

Father Alex Rivera, Associate Pastor

Father Ireneusz Ekiert, in Residence

Deacon Don Livingstone

Deacon Norman Ruíz-Castañeda

Deacon Thomas V. Eagan

Deacon Marcos Pérez

Deacon Eduardo Smith

MASSES Monday-Friday 6:30 & 8:00 a.m.

Saturday 8:00 a.m.

Saturday Vigil 5:30 p.m.

Sunday 8:00, 9:30, & 11:00 a.m. 12:30* & 6:00 p.m. (*Spanish)

EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT

Monday-Friday 7:00-8:00 a.m. & 8:30-9:30 a.m.

Thursdays 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.

ROSARY Daily 7:40 a.m.

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Saturdays at 4:30 p.m.

SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM Call the Parish Office two months in advance.

SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY Call the Parish Office one year in advance.

June 11, 2017 The Most Holy Trinity

C H U R C H O F T H E E P I P H A N Y

It is worth noting that the New Testament writers never made one attempt to explain the Trinity. Indeed, they did not even use the word. They simply spoke of God in three different ways and let it stand at that. Sometimes they said God the Father, sometimes God the Son, and sometimes God the Holy Spirit. And sometimes they used all three expressions together but always without explanation. The Scriptures tell us that God by His very nature is outgoing, that He reaches out to people. He is a Father, and any father, worthy of the name, is involved with his family. He provides for them and gives to them; he feels what they feel; he shares their joys and sorrows, their triumphs and failures. God as a Father is fully involved with the human family. His nature is to give; He is always reaching out, holding nothing back. He is not a lonely, isolated aristocrat, but a loving, involved Father, whose very nature is to give. God has become concrete in history, in and through the life of Jesus Christ, His Son. Jesus was, of course, a real person, a human being. On that point the New Testament is unmistakably clear. Those who knew Him best saw Him first as a man, an incredible, remarkable man, but nevertheless a man. Then somewhere along the way, they began to see something else in Him. Peter was the first to express it. He said, "You are the Messiah, the Son of the Living God." Then others began to see and to say the same thing. Thomas called Him "my Lord and my God". John wrote of Him: "In the beginning was the Word, the Word was in the presence of God, and the Word was God. The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us, and we have seen His glory, the glory of an only Son coming from the Father." That was the essence of the message which the early church went out to share with the world. They called it the Gospel, which means "the good news". Jesus had given them a great ethic, the greatest ethic that the world has ever heard, but that was not the good news. Jesus had taught them a great theology, but that was not the good news. The good news was that God had invaded human history in and through the life of a Galilean

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carpenter. They had seen Him with their eyes. They had heard Him with their ears. They had touched Him with their hands. Never again could they think of God as an abstraction. God, for them, had become concrete and specific in the life of a man. Francis Thompson was right when he called Him "The Hound of Heaven". He is on our trail. He has taken the initiative. He has moved out of eternity into time and space. He has become one of us. God in the person of His Holy Spirit is always with us. He is the Father in Heaven, who is from everlasting to everlasting. He is the Son, who lived in Galilee more than two thousand years ago. But both of those concepts, as true as they are, leave God a long way off and a long way back. The message is not complete until we speak of God as the Holy Spirit, who is both with us and within us. God is forever our contemporary, our constant companion and helper, and guide and friend wherever life may lead us.

C H U R C H O F T H E E P I P H A N Y

When Theodore Roosevelt was president of the United States, he had a favorite political story. He said he knew it was a true story because he made it up himself. It was about a congressman who had been accused of not supporting the Monroe Doctrine. The man quickly began to explain. He said, "I believe in the Monroe Doctrine. I support the Monroe Doctrine. The only thing I said was I do not know what it is." That is a fairly accurate description of how many people feel about the doctrine of the Trinity. They accept it; they believe it; they are devoted to it, but they are not at all sure what it means. The concept of the Trinity is inherent to our Christian faith. We recite the Creed that says: "I believe in God the Father...and in Jesus Christ, His only Son...I believe in the Holy Spirit." We sing about it in our hymns: "Holy Holy Holy, merciful and mighty, God in three persons, blessed Trinity." One theologian, who had obviously struggled long and hard with the subject, said: "The Trinity is a doctrine, which if a person does not believe it, he might lose his soul. But if he tries to understand it, he will probably lose his mind." When the New Testament writers tried to report their experiences with God, they found it necessary to say, "Father, Son, and Holy Spirit." They believed in only one true God, but they had experienced the one true God in three ways. They had known Him as God the Father in Heaven, creator of all things. Then they came to know Him as God the Son, who for a few years had walked with them on the earth. And finally they had come to know Him as God the Holy Spirit, who was with them always because He lived within their hearts. In the New Testament, the Trinity is not so much a doctrine that is believed as it is an experience that is lived. And it should be the same in our lives. Our Gospel says, "God so loved the world that He gave His only Son." This is the central theme of the Trinity; the eternal God has made Himself known in the person of Jesus Christ. We know, of course, that Jesus was human. He got tired and needed rest. He got hungry and needed food; thirsty, and needed water. He lived a real life and

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He died a real death. He was bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh. But when it was all over, those who knew Him best realized that they had met God in the life of a Galilean carpenter. The first chapter of John's Gospel says it like this: "In the beginning was the Word; the Word was in God's presence, and the Word was God. The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us." This meant God has moved into the neighborhood and lived with us. He put up His tent right next to ours. God the Father in Heaven can seem a long way off. God, as revealed in Jesus of Nazareth, can seem a long way back. But God the Holy Spirit is not only up there in Heaven and back there in history. He is with us here on the earth, right now. Perhaps an analogy would help. If I were to ask you, "Where is the sun?" You might answer, "It is up there in the heavens, ninety-three million miles away." And your answer would be correct, but it would not be complete because the sun is all around us. So it is with God. He is up there in Heaven, and we have caught glimpses of Him among the stars. He is back there in history, and we have seen His glory shining on the face of Jesus Christ. But let us never forget that He is the one in Whom we live and move and have our being right now---today. There is one true God, whom we have come to know in three different ways, the Trinity of experience.

C H U R C H O F T H E E P I P H A N Y

Date Time Mass Intentions Requested by

Saturday Jun. 10

5:30 PM + +

Guillermo Miranda Jose Martin

Family Family

Sunday Jun. 11

8:00 AM + +

Brendan Tiernan Laura Benenati

Tiernan Family Margaret Vento

9:30 AM + +

Angelina Ortiz-Crabb Alberto & Maria Bravo

Tolon/Gallinal Family Casamayor Family

11:00 AM PEOPLE OF EPIPHANY 12:30 PM +

+ George Azar Aristobulo Ochoa Camargo

Family Roman Family

6:00 PM + Jose Ignacio Smith, Sr. Fr. Carlos Massieu

Family Marianela Perez

Monday Jun. 12

6:30 AM +

Msgr. Jude O’Doherty Joe O’Doherty

Epiphany Family & Friends Lasaga Family

8:00 AM + +

Judy Kitchin Clare O’Conner

Mary Teasdale Mary Teasdale

Tuesday Jun. 13

6:30 AM + +

Marta Tolon-Nunez Mary Ciattoni

Tolon/Gallinal Family Friend

8:00 AM + +

Guillermo Miranda In Thanksgiving to St. Anthony Raul Correa

Family Lyall Family Viso/Falcon Family

Wednesday Jun. 14

6:30 AM + +

Eduardo Arango Norka M. Jimenez

Family Robayna Family

8:00 AM + Carlos Torres de Navarra Fr. Carlos Massieu

Family Marianela Perez

Thursday Jun. 15

6:30 AM + +

Wilfredo & Ignacio Perez Carmen Prada

Ignacio Perez Ignacio Perez

8:00 AM +

Marisel & Gonzalo Diaz Raul & Melissa Moas Delfin Molins

Family Family Tere Molins

Friday Jun. 16

6:30 AM + John Usyk Cesar & Vivian Llano

Family Children

8:00 AM + +

Florentino Dominguez Graziella Bacardi

Gallinal Family Family

Saturday Jun. 17

8:00 AM + +

George & Carmina Aguilera Benigno Alvarez

Family Aleida Gutierrez

Saturday Jun. 17 (Sunday Vigil)

5:30 PM + +

Ventura Julia Jose Gros

Family Beatriz Suero

Sunday Jun. 18

8:00 AM Fathers of the Parish, Living & Deceased

9:30 AM Fathers of the Parish, Living & Deceased

11:00 AM PEOPLE OF EPIPHANY

12:30 PM Fathers of the Parish, Living & Deceased

6:00 PM Fathers of the Parish, Living & Deceased

MASS INTENTIONS

C H U R C H O F T H E E P I P H A N Y

Extraordinary Ministers June 17/18 Lectors Altar Servers Of Holy Communion

C Kathy Moorman

E Aguirre 1 Kathy Moorman

A Arguello 2 John Moorman Sat 5:30 PM Bob Dickinson A Cruz-Bustillo 3 Lilliam Arguelles Msgr. O'Doherty Debra Menegay J DaSilva 4 Alfredo Arguelles

C Lamas 5 Lynn Arguelles

E Ramirez 6 No # 6, Summer

7 No # 7, Summer

C Andres Aguirre

1 Mikki Smith Sun 8:00 AM Kellie Montoya L Buonocore 2 Andres Aguirre Fr. Rivera Montserrat Morrison

3 Chuck Broyard

4 Tom Beier

5 Juan Farach

C Lourdes Gonzalez

1 Lourdes Gonzalez

T Pozo 2 Al Gonzalez Sun 9:30 AM Jason Johnson A Sacher 3 Doug Garcia Fr. Massieu Monica Johnson V Sordo 4 Donna Alfano

D Suarez 5 Tom Alfano

6 No # 6, Summer

7 No # 7, Summer

C Haydee Martinez

1 Roland Martinez

I Penin 2 Haydee Martinez

J Pracitto 3 Diana Rodriguez Sun 11:00 AM Manuel Lasaga V Quimper 4 Manolo Dominguez Msgr. O'Doherty Guillermo Castillo W Recuset 5 Maite Dominguez

N Roza 6 Tere Larrieu

C Sol 7 Manolo Larrieu

8 No Choir

C Mary Gonzalez

1 Mary Gonzalez

2 Humberto Gonzalez Sun 12:30 PM Gisela Cacciamani D Barnola 3 Jose Martinez Elejalde Fr. Massieu

N Beltran 4 Raul Rosell

5 Titi Pujals-Rosell

6 No # 6, Summer

7 No # 7, Summer

C Javier Ruiz

A Martell 1 Rosie Verde Sun 6:00 PM Cecilia M. Altonaga A Martell 2 Armando Verde Fr. Rivera Jorge J. Pérez A Negret 3 Javier Ruiz

R Rivera 4 Julie Parlade

L Vizcaino 5 Jaime Parlade

I Zumpano 6 Maria Cristina Rodriguez

7 Alberto Rodriguez

MASS SCHEDULES

C H U R C H O F T H E E P I P H A N Y

GOD JUST SMILES When you can’t put your prayers into words,

God hears your heart.

When you feel abandoned, empty and upset,

God fills you with love.

When you are afraid and losing your way,

God walks with you.

But, when you try to explain the Blessed trinity

to someone,

God just smiles. Today is the Feast of the Most Blessed Trinity... Anthony Wilhelm in his book Christ Among Us wrote the following about the Blessed Trinity… “Ít is good to remember that the Blessed Trinity is a mystery. We can know something about the Trinity, but in the final analysis, very, very little. Life is full of mysteries--the ultimate composition of an atom, what life itself is---and so we should not be surprised that the inner life of God is the deepest of all mysteries. Whether or not one can accept our belief in the Blessed Trinity depends on God’s gift of faith. The mystery of the Blessed Trinity is, there is but one God, but in God there are three divine, completely equal Persons, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Each of these three persons is really distinct from the other two. Each is wholly God, equal to the other two. One did not come before the other. There is only one God.” I’m sure that is very clear. But one of the great lessons we derive from Christ’s teaching about the Blessed Trinity is that God is not unlike us. Rather, God is three Persons, a family who love one another with a joy and happiness we can hardy begin to imagine. I told you it was a mystery. So, thank God for our gift of faith. Once again when you try to explain the mystery of the Blessed Trinity to someone, “God just smiles.”

CHAPLET OF THE DIVINE MERCY

Everyone is invited to come and pray the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy every Saturday

after the 8:00 a.m. Mass, followed by Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 9:00 a.m. Join us!

IN REMEMBRANCE Next Monday, June 12, 2017 at 12:00 noon, the Church of the Epiphany will join other churches in and near the Village of Pinecrest in tolling their church bells 49 times in remembrance of the 49 victims of the shootings in the Pulse Club of Orlando.

The families of the victims of the Pulse Club shootings want their family members to be remembered on the anniversary of these senseless shootings. These families want the toll of the bells to remind people of our need to spread love-not hate. The Church of the Epiphany encourages everyone who hears the toll of bells on June 12, 2017 to say a prayer for these 49 victims and to pray for peace.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT

Monday – Friday 7:00 - 8:00 a.m. & 8:30 – 9:30 a.m.

Thursdays 10:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.

DAILY MASS

Monday – Friday 6:30 a.m. & 8:00 a.m.

C H U R C H O F T H E E P I P H A N Y

PRAY FOR THOSE WHO ARE ILL:

Rosa Maria Alvarez; Corina Basulto; Peggy Brodeur; Pat Clarke; Susy Fernandez;

Ana Alicia Fernandez; Robert Germroth; Stephen Hohauser; Fernando Hubert;

Patsy Kamercia; Paige Klekner; Daniel Manichello; Reinaldo Perez; Tom Rainey; Emma Rice;

Sandra Albornoz Scharzkopf; Esther Suarez; Paulina Tawil; Teodula Wong.

PRAY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE DIED:

George Abraham; Gromelia Amador; Manolo Bustillo; Cailynn McKeon;

Gladys Oses; Robert Regan; Dominic Romeo; Wanda Vargas;

Bonnie Wade.

The next session of our Baptism Preparation Program will be held on Saturday, August 12.

The program runs from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

at the Epiphany Parish Center. Attendance by the parents

is a pre-requisite to the child’s baptism.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Parish Pilgrim Virgin Ministry During the week of June 11

the Parish Pilgrim Virgin will be in the home of:

Eduardo & Margarita Del Valle 305.279.8723 Rene and Jeannette Iglesias 305.588.5152

To schedule your visit, please call Luis & Patricia Siman at 305.498.5936

May you walk with God this summer,

in whatever you do. Walking with God means...

Walking with honesty and with courage,

walking with love and respect and concern for the feelings of others.

May you talk to God this summer, every day and in every situation.

Talking with God means... Praying words of praise

for the beauty of creation, saying prayers of thanks

for friends and good times, asking for God’s help in all your decisions,

expressing your sorrow when you have failed.

May you walk with God every day. Amen

Don’t forget! The Sunday Preschool and The Holy Family Center will be closed until August 27th.

TRINITY SUNDAY

May the grace of Christ our Savior and the Father's boundless love

with the Holy Spirit's favor rest upon us from above.

Thus, may we abide in union with each other and the Lord

and possess in sweet communion joys which earth cannot afford.

Amen

SAVE THE DATE!

Servants of the Pierced Hearts of Jesus and Mary

All Night Vigil Friday, June 23

in honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Begins with Mass at 8:00 p.m.

St. John Vianney Seminary 2900 S.W. 87 Ave., Miami, FL

corazones.org or piercedhearts.org

C H U R C H O F T H E E P I P H A N Y

You know the story as Jesus told it. A rich man called together his servants and divided his wealth among them. He gave one five thousand pieces of silver, another two thousand, and a third one thousand. The man then went on a journey and stayed gone a long while. When he came home, he called his servants back together to find out what they had done with his money. The first two men reported that they had doubled their holdings, and both of them were highly commended and rewarded. But the third man told how he had buried his endowment in the ground, and therefore, had nothing to show but the original thousand pieces. In response to this, his master said, "Take the thousand away from him and give it to the man with ten thousand." Those who have will get more until they grow rich, while those who have not will lose even the little they have." Now, what did Jesus mean by this story and especially that last part, which some people have found rather disturbing? On the surface, it seems that He is endorsing the idea that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. In this parable, Jesus was not discussing economics. He was simply stating a law of life that applies to all of us, rich and poor alike. Each of us has an endowment entrusted to us by God. We do not all have the same. Some have more; others have less, but all of us have something. Now before you start finding injustice in that, stop and consider what a dull world this would be if we were all alike. Not only dull, it would be impossible. Life would just sort of grind to a stop and die of boredom. We've been hearing a good bit lately about a scientific technique called "cloning." I don't understand anything about it except it has something to do with genetic engineering. The idea seems to be that someday scientists will be able to control the hereditary process so that a child is an exact copy of the parent. Well, the great Giver of Life didn't see fit to do it that way. He made us all individual---separate, distinct and different, no two of us alike, and I suspect, it will always be that way. At least, I hope so because much of the beauty and charm and

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vitality of life is found in the variety of the people---a world of billions, all of them made in the image of God, and yet each one is unique. Every time God makes a baby, He breaks the mold and throws it away. You are not a copy. You are an original that has never been copied. So, there is no one else in the world exactly like you! Jesus said, "He gave one five thousand pieces of silver, another two thousand, and a third one thousand." All of them were different, but each of them had an endowment held in trust for their master. That's how it is with you and me. Each of us has a little piece of God's great gift of life and a little segment of time to see what we can do with it. That is what Jesus is saying: we all have an endowment entrusted to us by God. The second lesson can best be stated in the little catch phrase, "Use it or lose it." This is what Jesus meant when He said, "Take the thousand away from him and give it to the man with ten thousand." He was not espousing economic injustice. He was simply stating a basic law that applies in every area of living. It is this: life cannot be hoarded. All of its capacities and possibilities are intended to be used and invested. If we refuse to do that, one day we will realize that they have slipped away and we do not even have them any more. Consider, for example, your capacity to love. You were born with it; we all were. It is a priceless gift, a little part of the very heart of God. But you can't hoard it. You can't hide it. You've got to give it away. You've got to invest it in people. If you do that, it will grow, and you will have more love than you can ever use. Yet if you don't do that, if you try to keep it for yourself, it will all slip away, and one day you will find yourself wondering if you even know what love means. Jesus said, "Those who have, will get more until they grow rich, while those who have not will lose even the little they have." But He wasn't talking about money. He was talking about life, your life and mine. Give it to God. Share it with others. The more you give, the more you will have. And in the good sense of the word, you will be one of the rich who keeps getting richer. We don't have to lose it, not if we use it.