Our Lady of Mount Carmel 300 Fulton Street ▪ Redwood City, CA 94062

Tel. (650) 366-3802 ▪ Fax: (650) 366-1421▪ parish@mountcarmel.org ▪

Parish Center Hours Monday - Thursday 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Mass Schedule Sunday: 8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m., 12:00 p.m. (español), 5:00 p.m. Saturday: 8:15 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Vigil Mass Monday to Friday 8:15 a.m. Reconciliation/Confession - Saturday 3:30 –4:30 p.m. or by request after daily Mass.

Parish Staff Pastor: Rev. Ulysses D’Aquila - 306-9583 Deacon: Rev. Mr. Thomas J. Boyle- 366-3802 Principal: Teresa Anthony - 366-6127 School Development: Nori Jabba - 366-8817 Kid’s Place: Maureen Arnott – 366-6587 CCD (First Communion) & Youth Confirmation: Magdalena Hernández – 368-8237 Director of Music: Bianca Remlinger – bremlinger@mountcarmel.org Spanish Music Ministry: Andres Garcia-366-3802 Administrative Assistant: Alba Canelo –366-3802

Baptisms / Bautismos Call parish two months in advance. Llame a la parroquia a lo menos dos meses antes.

Weddings / Bodas Call parish at least six months in advance Llame a la parroquia a lo menos seis meses antes.

Mission Statement Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish is a Christ-centered community in the Roman Catholic tradition. We try to share the Good News of salvation with others. As a diverse community, we value and respect individual differences. As God’s people, we gather in the Spirit to pray, to celebrate the sacraments, to teach, to learn, to console, to rejoice, to minister and to renew our faith with one another.

Pentecost Sunday May 24, 2015

There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit. —1 Corinthians 12: 4

Notes from the Pastor The Feast of Pentecost which we are celebrating today is one of the oldest festivities on the Church calendar, and it is one of the few that links directly back to the Jewish ancestry of our Catholic Christian faith. From the earliest days of the Church, Pentecost was seen to mark both the conclusion of

the great Feast of Easter – the celebration of Jesus’ death and resurrection -- as well as the beginning of the regular Church year when we recalled the many other events of Jesus’ earthly min-istry. Pentecost (a Greek word meaning ‘the 50th day’) is mentioned in the Book of Exodus as a harvest-

time festival when animals and grains were offered as sacri-fices to God. Later in Jewish history, Pentecost was cele-brated as the anniversary of God’s giving the Ten Com-mandments to Moses. The early Christians adapted this feast to recall that moment when the Church was said to begin. Our best description of this moment comes from the New Testament book, Acts of the Apostles. Here we find de-scribed an extraordinary and dramatic event. The Apostles and others of Jesus’ followers are all gathered in an upper room in Jerusalem some fifty days after Jesus’ death and resurrection. No doubt they are still perplexed about what they are to do now that their beloved Teacher has gone from them. Of course, they had seen the Risen Christ and they understood that they were to press on, teaching others what they had learned from him. But how to do this? After all, they had no catechism or manuals, and missionary work had been no part of their own Jewish tradition. They might proselytize their own people in the synagogues, but did Jesus want them to speak to others, the pagans or Gentiles? And then, suddenly, as they stood discussing these things, a sound like the wind was heard through the house, and then a kind of fire hovered in the air and parted into tongues of flame. When these tongues of flame settled over the Apos-tles they found themselves able to speak in the many lan-guages of the region, and their minds were filled with a new kind of wisdom and understanding. This coming of the Ho-ly Spirit upon the Apostles inspired them and gave them courage to brave every danger in order to preach the mes-sage of Jesus, to call others to faith in Christ, and to spread this faith we now call Christianity to all parts of the world. So this is the Pentecost of which we speak today and which we celebrate fifty days after Easter when Christ rose from the dead. Pentecost is, in a great sense, the birthday of our pilgrim Church on earth, for guided by the Holy Spirit, we press on, through all the ups and downs of human history until that day when all is made new in Christ and he comes again in glory to gather all his children into his loving heart. -- Fr. Ulysses

Notas del Párroco La fiesta de Pentecostés, que celebramos hoy es una de las fiestas más antiguas en el calendario de la iglesia, y es uno de los pocos que vincula directamente a la descendencia

judía de nuestra fe cristiana católica. Desde los primeros días de la iglesia, Pentecostés fue visto para marcar tan-to la conclusión de la gran Fiesta de la Pascua – la celebración de la muerte de Jesús y la resurrección, así como el principio del año eclesial regular cuan-do recordábamos los varios eventos del ministerio terrenal de Jesús. Pente-

costés (una palabra griega que significa 'el día 50') se men-ciona en el Libro del Éxodo como un festival de cosecha cu-ando los animales y los granos fueron ofrecidos como sacri-ficios a Dios. Más tarde en la historia judía, Pentecostés fue celebrado como el aniversario cuando Dios dió los diez mandamientos a Moisés. Los primeros cristianos adaptaron esta fiesta para recordar el comienzo la Iglesia. La descrip-ción de este momento viene del libro del Nuevo Testamen-to, Hechos de los Apóstoles. Aquí se describe un evento ex-traordinario y dramático. Los apóstoles y otros de los segui-dores de Jesús estaban todos reunidos en un cuarto en Jeru-salén unos cincuenta días después de la muerte y resurrec-ción de Jesús. Sin duda ellos estaban perplejos y confundi-dos acerca de qué iban a hacer ahora que su querido Maes-tro se ha ido. Habían visto al Cristo Resucitado y entendi-eron que debían continuar enseñando a otros lo que habían aprendido de él. Pero, ¿cómo hacerlo? Después de todo, no tenían ningún catecismo o manuales, y el trabajo misionero no había sido parte de su propia tradición judía. Podrían predicar a su propia gente en las sinagogas, pero ¿queria Jesús que ellos hablaran a los paganos o Gentiles? Y luego, de repente, mientras estaban hablando de estas cosas, se escuchó un sonido como el viento a través de la casa, y luego una especie de fuego flotaba en el aire y se separaron en lenguas de fuego. Cuando esas lenguas de fuego se asen-taron sobre los apóstoles se sintieron capaces de hablar en muchas lenguas de la región, y sus mentes estaban llenas de una nueva clase de sabiduría y entendimiento. Esta venida del Espíritu Santo sobre los apóstoles les inspiró y les dió el valor de supercar cualquier peligro para predicar el mensaje de Jesús y llamar a otros a la fe en Cristo, y a difundir esta fe que ahora llamamos Cristianismo en todas las partes del mundo. Esta es la fiesta de Pentecostés de la que hablamos hoy y que se celebra cincuenta días después de Pascua cu-ando Cristo resucitó de entre los muertos. Pentecostés es, en un gran sentido, el cumpleaños de nuestra Iglesia pere-grina en la tierra. Nuestra Iglesia guiada por el Espíritu Santo, sigue adelante a través de todos los altibajos de la historia humana hasta ese día cuando todo está hecho de nuevo en Cristo y El vuelva en gloria para reunir a todos sus hijos en su amoroso corazón. P. Ulises

RCIA or Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults is the process by which people enter the Catholic Church. If you or someone you know is interest-ed in becoming a Catholic, please

contact Fr. Ulysses at 306-9583 or John Spotorno at 303-6292 or email johnspotorno@gmail.com.

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION Marriage is ideally a parish event today, but in the first three centuries of the church’s history, it was a household celebration guided by civil law and pagan customs. Changes happened quickly after the Peace of Constantine in 312, and the fresh air after long persecution brought some creativity. The speech that the father of the groom’s family gave before dinner or the veiling or crowning of the bride (or even the spouse’s arrival at the honeymoon suite) attracted a prayer of blessing. With amazing rapidity, worship was propelled out of the intimate setting of house churches to large public gathering spaces, and some parts of the mar-riage ceremony began to migrate with the growing community to the new spaces. In Rome, the veiling of the bride with the customary daily headgear of a married woman became the central liturgical act, ac-companied by a biblical prayer for her integrity and fruitfulness. There were no vows as such (just as there are no vows to this day in the Orthodox mar-riage rite). In the liturgy, after hearing John’s Gospel account of the wedding at Cana, the bride was veiled and blessed, and the priest gave the kiss of peace to the husband, who then gave it to his bride. The litur-gy of Rome traveled far, and everywhere it went, mar-riage became a church celebration. —Rev. James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

OLMC WOMEN’S

CLUB

Please join us on Thursday, May 28 at 6:30 p.m. in the Small Hall for a Summer Fun Event. Pulled Pork & BBQ Chicken sliders, salad, baked beans, fruit & dessert. Women 21 years and older. Prizes!! SEE YOU THERE!

SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES

Sunday: Pentecost Sunday Monday: Eighth Week in Ordinary Time; St. Bede the Venerable; St. Gregory VII; St. Mary Magdelene de’Pazzi; Memorial Day Tuesday: St. Philip Neri Wednesday: St. Augustine of Canterbury Saturday: Blessed Virgin Mary

A PRAYER TO THE SPIRIT Holy Spirit, who sent Christ Jesus to carry the Good news to the poor, we pray to you: Help us to continue your work by serving the poor, our brothers and sisters. —From Come, Lord Jesus by Lucien Deiss, CSS , copyright © 1976, 1981, Lucien Deiss. Published by World Library Publications. p.181

ARCHBISHOP ANNUAL APPEAL 2015 Thank all of you who have contributed to the Archbishop Annual Appeal. Our assessment for 2015 is $64,500. To date we have received $22,275. Please consider how you can help us meet our goal.

MESSAGE FROM THE S.V.D.P. Mt. Carmel Conference

Next Saturday and Sunday, May 30th, the second col-lection will be held for the support of the St. Vincent de Paul Society. This collection helps to provide vouchers for dairy, meat, produce, utilities and rent assistance. All do-nations are returned 100% to our community.

In addition, there are several volunteer opportunities that only require 1 or 2 hours a month. Delivering a box of food to a needy family is just one of many ways to help your Parish Conference. Thank you for remembering and supporting the needy in out community with your generosity next Sunday. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Conference.

APELACION ANUAL DEL ARZOBISPADO 2015 Gracias a todos los que han contribuido al llamamiento anual del arzobispo. Nuestra evaluación para 2015 es $64,500. Hasta la fecha hemos recibido $22,275. Por favor considere cómo puedes ayudarnos a alcanzar nuestra meta.

THIS WEEK AT MT. CARMEL Sunday, May 24: Children’s Liturgy 10:00 AM Chapel Monday, May 25: Memorial Day Grupo Carismático 7:00 PM P. Center Tuesday, May 26: Men’s Sports 8:30 –10:30 PM L Hall Wednesday, May 27 Grupo Carismático 7:00 PM L. Hall Thursday, May 28: Good Grief 6:00 PM Chapel Women’s Club 6:30 PM SH/K Friday, May 29: Ensayo del Coro 7:00 PM P. Center

Intenciones de Misas de la semana

Saturday, May 23 5:00 PM Denis A. O’Leary † Sunday, May 24 8:00 AM Special Intention 10:00 AM Paul Isaacs † (Español) 12:00 PM Julio Kippez † 5:00 PM Terry Lyon (int.) Monday, May 25 8:15 AM Huan Phan † Tuesday, May 26 8:15 AM Doug Hewitt † Wed., May 27 8:15 AM Audie Murphy †

Thurs. May 28 8:15 AM Eloisa Lopez (int.)

Friday May 29 8:15 AM Maria Dabu † Sat. May 30 8:15 AM Antonio Orbeta †

UNA ORACIÓN AL ESPÍRITU Espíritu Santo, que enviaste a Cristo Jesús a traer la Buena Nueva a los pobres, Te pedimos: Ayúdanos a continuar tu obra sirviendo al pobre, nuestro hermano y hermana. —De Come, Lord Jesus por Lucien Deiss, CSSP, copyright © 1976, 1981, Lucien Deiss. Published by World

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A SIGNIFICANT DAY “And suddenly there came from the sky a noise like a

strong driving wind, and it filled the entire house in which they were” (Acts 2:2). The Ho-ly Spirit’s arrival on that first Pentecost was signaled by a rush of wind. We all know what it’s like when our win-

dows are open just as a summer storm rises up. Curtains fly, papers become airborne, house plants shudder, dust is scattered. A rush of wind disrupts the orderliness of our home. The coming of the Holy Spirit, as celebrated each year at Pentecost, can also disrupt ways that have become comfortable and orderly. The Church always needs Pente-cost. We need the breath of God’s Spirit to blow away any complacency or malaise that has settled into our faith. Je-sus breathes on his disciples and they receive the Holy Spirit. With that reception comes the power to share the Good News of salvation. Today, this is no less true for us. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

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