St.

Anthony Shrine
Tel. 617-542-6440 Website: http://www.StAnthonyShrine.org The Good Word Tel. 617-542-0502 Prayer Request Line Tel. 617-542-6826

100 Arch Street, Boston, MA 02110

& Ministry Center

Sunday, October 6 Saturday, October 12, 2013

OCTOBER

WHATS HAPPENING THIS WEEK

05 Saturday

New Eucharistic Ministers Workshop, 10 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., 2nd fl. classroom & church Centering Prayer Group, Noon to 1:30 p.m.

06 Sunday

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.

Prison Ministry, SCHC, 8:15 to 11:30 a.m.

Fasting Cholesterol check, Blood pressure & Blood Sugar check, Flu vaccine, 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Wellness Center. Pieta monthly Mass & Coffee, 10 a.m. Mass (See ad for details.)

REGULAR EVENTS
Monday Tuesday

07 Monday

08 Tuesday

Dental screening*, 10:00 a.m. to Noon (*by appt. 617-542-6440, ext. 118) Blood pressure & Blood Sugar screening, Flu vaccine, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Wellness Center Blood pressure & Blood Sugar screening, Flu vaccine, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Wellness Center

The Truth will set you free, by Bill Sawyer, 12:15 to 1:15 p.m., 2nd fl. classroom (See ad for details)

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.

09 Wednesday

Highly Sensitive Person workshop, by Michael Parise, 5:30 to 7:00 p.m., 2nd fl. classroom (See ad for details.)

Pray for Peace in the Middle East!

Bread on the Common, 5:45 to 7:30 p.m. (See ad for details.)

Womens Spiritual Reflection Group, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Contact Nancy Nichols Kearns, 781-704-1010

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

Sacramental anointing Mass, 10:00 a.m. (See ad for details.)

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

10 Thursday

(11 Friday - 13 Sunday, 20s/30s Glastonbury Retreat)

Mens Faith Works Spirituality Group, 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. (See ad for details.)

12 Saturday

After the Rain, movie & discussion, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., 2nd fl. classroom (See ad for details.) Saint Anthony Shrine The Church on Arch Street

Bereavement Workshop, 10 a.m. to Noon, by Fr. Joe Quinn, 2nd fl. classroom (See ad for details.)

READINGS FOR THE WEEK

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

Jon 1:1 2:2, 11; Jon 2:3-5, 8; Lk 10:25-37 Jon 3:1-10; Ps 130:1b-4ab, 7-8; Lk 10:38-42 Jon 4:1-11; Ps 86:3-6, 9-10; Lk 11:1-4 Mal 3:13-20b; Ps 1:1-4, 6; Lk 11:5-13 Jl 1:13-15; 2:1-2; Ps 9:2-3, 6, 16, 8-9; Lk 11:15-26 Jl 4:12-21; Ps 97:1-2, 5-6, 11-12; Lk 11:27-28 2 Kgs 5:14-17; Ps 98:1-4; 2 Tm 2:8-13; Lk 17:11-19 Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time; Respect Life Sunday Our Lady of the Rosary St. Denis and Companions; St. John Leonardi Blessed Virgin Mary

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 Truth will set you free

SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES

Sunday: Monday: Wednesday: Saturday:

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

Participants will learn how to come to true happiness by fully believing Jesus truths, and applying them to their everyday lives.

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.

Events This Week 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

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.

Separated and Divorced Catholics Support Group

Sundays, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. auditorium classroom

Contact: Fr. Howard OShea, OFM, 617-542-6440 Offered by Evangelization

Many separated and divorced people have come to St. Anthony Shrine to find strength, support, safety and some laughter from time to time. Please visit us so that we may be of help to you. Your presence will certainly help us.

Contact: Dr. Jackie Stewart, 617-542-6440, ext. 143 or email SAS.Evang@gmail.com. Offered by Franciscan Adult School

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.

Cover art: Mulberry Tree, Vincent Van Gogh, c. 1889 Jesus replied, If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you would say to (this) mulberry tree, Be uprooted and planted in the sea, and it would obey you (Lk 17:6). 3

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Our next celebration of the Anointing of the Sick will take place on Wednesday, October 9 at the 10:00 a.m. Mass. All those who suffer from physical, mental or emotional illness are welcome to receive this Sacrament.

Sacramental ANOINTING OF THE SICK

Remembering Well: The Healing Journey of Grief The Bereavement Workshop

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

Bread on the Common Street Ministry to Homeless Persons

All are invited to be part of a ministry to homeless persons on the streets and nearby the Shrine on the 2nd & 4th Wednesdays of each month. We meet in the auditorium of the Shrine at 5:45 p.m., prepare food packets, and then visit with homeless persons on the streets, offering food, socks, and presence, ending at 7:30 p.m.
For more information, please contact Dr. Jackie Stewart at 617-542-6440, ext 143 or email SAS.Evang@gmail.com. Offered by Evangelization

2nd & 4th Wednesdays, October 9 & 23. 5:45 to 7:30 p.m.

Please call ahead of time if you plan on coming.

2nd & 4th Thursdays, October 10 & 24. 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

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

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.

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.

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

For more information, contact Bob Giers at 617-5426440, ext. 198. Offered by the Franciscan Spiritual Companionship Ministry 4

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.

20s/30s Boston

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)

Saint Anthony Shrine The Church on Arch Street

Inconvenient Film Series After the Rain

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

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

More Upcoming Events

LGBT Spirituality Group

Wednesday, October 16, 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Assisi auditorium stage classroom

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, 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.

Contact: Fr. Joe Quinn, OSF, 617-542-6440, ext. 239 or email LGBT@stanthonyshrine.org

All Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgendered (LGBT) Catholics are invited to participate in our monthly spirituality group.

Offered by LGBT MInistry of St. Anthony Shrine

New Lectors Workshop

Contact: Fr. Joe Quinn, OSF, 617-542-6440, ext. 239 or email LGBT@stanthonyshrine.org

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

Offered by LGBT MInistry of St. Anthony Shrine

Contact Fr. Frank McHugh via email or at 617-542-6440, ext. 170.

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

100 Arch Street Boston, Massachusetts 02110 617.542.6440

SAINT ANTHONY SHRINE & MINISTRY CENTER ~ All Are Welcome ~

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

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION

8:00 a.m.

10:00 a.m.

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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Spirituality of the Readings

Spirituality of the Readings
27th Sunday of Ordinary Time C Reading I: Habakkuk 1:2-3; 2:2-4 Responsorial Psalm: 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9 Reading II: 2 Timothy 1:6-8, 13-14 Gospel: Luke 17:5-10

achieved with trust, gradually and prudently. We need to love and be loved, whatever else might happen.

What Is It?

Faith. What is it?

We see this kind of trust in the First reading. The writer speaks to God with great emotion, the way a deserted friend might. how long, o Lord? I cry for help but you do not listen. Why do you let me see ruin? Why must I look at misery? Pain, openly expressed.

Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. So says the Letter to the hebrews (heb 11:1). So there is the answer. But what does the answer mean? In the Gospel, Jesus makes it simple. Too simple.

(3) So the question progresses to the third and highest level: why is waiting a part of faith? Surprisingly, in this case, God answers. The vision still has its time, he says in the First reading. It presses on to fulfillment, and it will not disappoint. If it delays, wait for it, it will surely come.

If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you would say to [this] mulberry tree, Be uprooted and planted in the sea, and it would obey you. no, no, this cannot be true! We repeat, what is faith?

Consoling. But why must we wait, wait for repayment of our innocent desires, for help that acts now and does not consist of promises for the future?

Problem: relational faith of this kind includes moments when just the opposite seems true. A friend has turned away. you are hurt. Some of us avoid having any close relationships at all, just for fear of such a thing! yet all of us need friendship,
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(2) A second level of meaning for faith involves relationship. With a friend you have a kind of assurance that he or she will be loyal to you, will be true to the promise contained in friendship. your friends love will not expire. There is a mutual kinship here, and this is often Jesus meaning of the word, faith.

(1) here is a first level of meaning. you believe that various cities around the world exist, even though you have never actually been in them. Moscow, Katmandu, Mooresville Indiana, etc. And you make plans with a friend for dinner without having to worry if you just imagined that person and they dont really exist! you have conviction of things (or persons) not seen. Thus you have faith, of a basic, everyday sort.

If you think about it, any relationship simply has to deepen over time, because its roots are hidden in the inmost recesses of our souls. you do not get to be an intimate friend of someone in twenty minutes. The hidden parts of the relationship must emerge, and it takes time. Above we said that Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

hoped for because friendship with God is rooted so deep within us that we cannot force it. We must wait. A thing not seen because it is nestled within the transcendental underside of our own soul. how could it be seen? It simply has to emerge through time.

It will surely come. Come to fullness within us, to a comfort of closeness with the living God.
Fr. John Foley, S. J. Copyright 2013, The Center for Liturgy at Saint Louis university. All rights reserved. used by permission.

you are invited to write a note to the author of this reflection: Fr. John Foley, S. J. (johnbfoley@yahoo.com)

more Upcoming Events

GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP

Mondays, Oct. 21, 28; Nov. 4, 11, 18, 25. On November 25th, a Mass of Remembrance will be celebrated for the loved ones that brought you to this support group. 5:30 to 6:45 p.m. 4th fl. Clare Room Facilitator: Fr. Joe Quinn, OFM Pre-registration is required. Grieving is the most misunderstood and neglected growth process a person can go through. There is an opportunity for this support group to be a 'safe' place where people can share their loss and not feel uncomfortable about it . Hopefully, we can offer some of the important methods of learning to live life with the one they love.
Offered by the Grief Ministry Please contact Fr. Joe at 617-542-6440, ext. 239

Saturday, October 19, 2013. 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. Turkish Cultural Center Boston 1105 Commonwealth Ave Suite 207, Boston, MA, 02134 (Street parking or take Green Line B to Packards Corner Station at intersection of Commonwealth Ave. & Brighton Ave.) Sezar Yavuz Professional Cook Pre-Registrations appreciated.

Catholics & Muslims working together for the Common Good Frugal Cooking: How to be More Efficient in the Kitchen

The Damietta Project

Contact: Dr. Jackie Stewart, St. Anthony Shrine, 617542-6440, ext. 143 or email SAS.Evang@gmail.com. St. Anthony Shrine Just Matters Group Peace & Social Justice & Peace Islands Institute/Turkish Cultural Center

Our Damietta Project focus is on food waste management and sustainabilty. All are welcome to come join us in this workshop.

After my abortion, I was broken and desperate for help. I turned to Project Rachel. After the experience, I left feeling like a whole person again. Forgiveness became a reality for me, a feeling I never imagined was possible. The pain of abortion haunts many women. retreats offered by the Project Rachel ministry of the Archdiocese of Boston can help women find hope, healing and reconciliation after abortion. If you or a loved one is suffering from postabortion pain, contact Project Rachel about upcoming Come to the Waters of healing retreats to be held october 26 and november 23, 2013. For more information and to register for the date of your choice, call Project Rachel at 508.651.3100 or email help@projectrachelboston.com. All inquiries are confidential.
Monday, December 9, 2013 (Note new day!) 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. 4th floor Francis & Clare rooms Cost: $15 minimum donation (includes supper) Contact: Dr. Jackie Stewart, St. Anthony Shrine, 617542-6440, ext. 143 or email SAS.Evang@gmail.com. Offered by Franciscan Adult School

Project Rachel

2015 Holy Land Pilgrimage

Not too early to Plan Ahead

Advent Twilight Retreat

Budget Suggestion: Start your Pilgrimage Club, (beginning October 2013, recommend saving $75/wk pp thru December. 2014). To get on our interest list, please contact Dr. Jackie Stewart, SAS.Evang@gmail.com or 617542-6440, 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)