The Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

100 NE 191 Street ~ Miami, Florida 33179 ~ (305)652-3624 ~ Fax (305)652-5207 Website: www.visitationmiami.org ~ Email: office@visitationmiami.org

Parish Staff Rev. Msgr. George Puthusseril, JCD, Pastor Rev. Antony Vayalikarottu, In Residence

Rev. James Quinn, Weekends Rev. Jose Abreu, Spanish Mass

Cheryl Thornhill, Parish Secretary Pete Fetscher, Property Manager

Yanic Elie, Custodian

Parish Office Hours Monday – Friday 8:30am -2:00pm & 2:30pm -4:30pm

Religious Education Marcia Waite, Director of Religious Education (DRE)

Email: ccddre@visitationmiami.org

Mass Schedule Daily: 8am (English)

Saturday: Vigil: 5pm (English) Sunday: 8am & 10am (English)

Sunday: 12 Noon (Español)

Confession Saturday: 4:30pm

Sunday: 9:30am &11:30am Or anytime by appointment

Sacraments Please contact the parish office to make arrangements.

Charismatic Prayer Group /Creole Thursday’s 8:00pm - 9:30pm in the Parish Hall.

El Grupo de Oración en Español Están todos invitados al grupo de oración el primer miércoles y el tercer miércoles del mes todo los meses en el cuarto de actividades a las 7pm a 8:30pm.

Legion of Mary Saturday’s 8:30am -10:30am in the Activities Room.

St. Vincent de Paul Society Meets every 2nd & 4th Thursday of the month in the Food Pantry, Building #3. Distribution of food, every other Wednesday from 9am – 12pm. For more information please call 786-462-4815.

Respect Life Ministry If you or someone you know is pregnant and needs help or would like to volunteer your time or donate baby items please call 786-452-0266, 5801 NW 151 St, Room #302. For more information, please call Jeanette Carter @ 305-652-2264.

Women’s Club Meets every 4th Saturday of the month @ 6pm in the Activities Room. For more information, please contact Nettie Mildor @ 305-321-0979, nettievwc@comcast.net or Debbie Gadson @ 954-614-6936, deborahagadson@bellsouth.net

Rosary Monday ~ Saturday at 7:30am in the Church.

Adoration Wednesday, Thursday & Saturday at 8:30am in the Church.

Exposition & Benediction First Friday of the month from 7pm to 9pm in the Church.

TODAY’S READINGS

None of you can be my disciple unless he gives up

all his possessions. First Reading — Who can ever know God’s counsel unless God gives wisdom and sends the Holy Spirit from on high? (Wisdom 9:13-18b). Psalm — In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge (Psalm 90). Second Reading — Paul asks Philemon to accept back his slave Onesimus, not as a slave but as a brother (Philemon 9-10, 12-17). Gospel — To be a disciple of Jesus one must carry one’s own cross and renounce all possessions (Luke 14:25-33).

Prayer List

Juan Marrero, Joshua Sanchez, Wilford Colome, Rose B. Lagueux, Gaetane Bolduc, Niko Moore, Krystal Martinez, Chris Carter, J.M. Faoud, Irma Rose, Dianne Merren, Rose Marie Yorkoo, Faoud James, Rosa Goldstein, Isabella Agnant, Ashley McLaugton, Elizabeth McKenzie, Mary Ann Wolfer, Paula DeBiase, John & Lynn Feuerstein, Olly & Manny De Rose, Wilma Spitzer, Olivia Johnson, Barrington Dyke, Donit Dyke Allen, Jacklyne Samuels, Jeshawn Davis, Joan Mapp, Cornelius Davis, Paul Mention, Jo & Tom Pender, John Marini, Helen Lagueux, Edith Baronville, Apolon Fleurantin, Susan DeBiase, Robert & Elisabeth Schwab, Frances Bureau, Ada Rivera, Omar Paz, and all the sick of our parish. (Please let the office know if you would like to add/remove a name).

The Sanctuary Lamp is burning this week September 3rd to September 9th, 2016 for Sarady Amparo, Nettie Mildor, Meritee Mildor, Islande Mildor, Leonel Anduze

Requested by Nettie Mildor

Sept . 3 rd - Sept . 10 th, 2016 Sat., Sept. 3, Vigil: Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

5pm: Thanksgiving to God/Yanick Vassor 5pm: Marie Jeanne Edmond/The Edmond family

Sun., Sept. 4, Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time 8am: Maria Altagracia Urena/Maria Urena & family

8am: Thanksgiving to Mt. Carmel/Eva Gauthier 10am: The People of the Parish

12pm: Blanca Alvarez/The Alvarez family 12pm: Elsa Rosazo/The family

Mon., Sept. 5, Blessed Theresa of Calcutta; Labor Day 8am: All Souls/Nancy Taveras

8am: Special intention for Elizabeth Diskin/The Diskin family Tues., Sept 6, Weekday

8am: Thanksgiving to St. Ann/Marie LaMothe 8am: Thanksgiving to St. Ann/Marjorie Mondelus

Wed., Sept. 7, Weekday 8am: Special intention for Christopher Guerrero/Elizabeth Diskin

8am: Thanksgiving to St. Patrick/Marjorie Mondelus Thur., Sept. 8, The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

8am: Josie Berger/Fr. George 8am: All Souls/Denyse & Roland Barber

Fri., Sept. 9, St. Peter Claver 8am: Special intention for Yoli Dol/Danielle

8am: Thanksgiving to Mt. Carmel/Marie LaMothe Sat., Sept. 10, Weekday

8am: In Thanksgiving/Viviane Metayer 8am: Eve Diskin/The Diskin family

READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: 1 Cor 5:1-8; Ps 5:5-7, 12; Lk 6:6-11, or, for Labor Day, any readings from the Mass “For the Blessings of Human Labor,” nos. 907-911 Tuesday: 1 Cor 6:1-11; Ps 149:1b-6a, 9b; Lk 6:12-19 Wednesday: 1 Cor 7:25-31; Ps 45:11-12, 14-17; Lk 6:20-26 Thursday: Mi 5:1-4a or Rom 8:28-30; Ps 13:6; Mt 1:1-16, 18-23 [18-23] Friday: 1 Cor 9:16-19, 22b-27; Ps 84:3-6, 12; Lk 6:39-42 Saturday: 1 Cor 10:14-22; Ps 116:12-13, 17-18; Lk 6:43-49 Sunday: Ex 32:7-11, 13-14; Ps 51:3-4, 12-13, 17, 19; 1 Tm 1:12-17; Lk 15:1-32 [1-10]

THE WORD THIS WEEK

This is a very difficult set of readings. The Gospel itself starts with a saying which many find hard to understand: must we really hate our family to be the Lord's disciples? The point is that it is relative: what are we prepared to give up for the Gospel? Are we going to try and make our own cross, or accept whatever we are given? Jesus is probably try-ing to discourage the crowd of sensation seekers and hangers-on who are crowing round him. He wants real disciples, who are aware of the possible cost: not like the incompetent builder, or the useless king. To be a disciple, one must be prepared to follow Jesus anywhere, whatever it might cost in possessions, family or friends. We may never understand why, but then, who can know the intentions of God?

SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES

Sunday: Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time Monday: Labor Day Thursday: The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Friday: St. Peter Claver Saturday: Blessed Virgin Mary

August 28, 2016 5pm Mass: $661.00 8am Mass: $1246.00 10am Mass: $2860.83 Noon Mass: $993.00

Rec’d by the office: $95.00 Building Fund: $235.00

Happy Labor Day weekend! With any luck, summer delights will continue a while longer: refreshing recreation (with maybe an occasional swim) or enjoyable relaxation on the deck (with tasty outdoor grilling). Truth is, for some of us, this year’s Labor Day came way too early. With many schools back in session for a while already, mealtimes and driving schedules needed readjustment to coordinate youth sports with adult commitments. Some religious education and parish programs resumed, too. No surprise, then, that this holiday weekend’s scriptures sound a little like post-summer challenges. For instance, Wisdom reminds us that believers in God can never be content with “timid deliberations” and “unsure plans.” Paul challenges longtime friend and follower Philemon to “let the good you do be voluntary.” Jesus instructs “great crowds” traveling with him—including us—on three things necessary for all true disciples to accomplish. On this Labor Day weekend, our scriptures describe disciples’ lifelong labors.

Twenty Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

St. Paul must have understood today’s Gospel very well. Like Jesus, he knew what being a disciple would cost. It landed him in prison. Yet he seems to have no regrets; he ac-cepts that imprisonment as part of his discipleship. Also like Jesus, he is not afraid to ask others to take that discipleship seriously. And he is not ashamed to ask a favor: Would Phile-mon accept his runaway slave, Onesimus, back into his home? Not just as a slave, but as a member of his family. He shame-lessly calls himself a prisoner for Christ five times in the short letter (three times in our reading). If that didn’t tug Phile-mon’s heartstrings, Paul also calls himself an old man.

In the Gospel, Jesus talks about the cost of disciple-ship. Paul takes that a step further; he reminds us to accept that cost freely. He could have ordered his friend to free the slave. Paul was an apostle, a leader in the early church. Instead of giving an order, he called on Philemon to respond freely to his request. Perhaps we can learn from that example.

Like Paul, when Jesus commands us to love one an-other, he leaves us free to accept that challenge. Remember, he always says, “Love one another, as I have loved you” (John 13:34). Jesus was never compelled to cure anyone or forgive their sins. No one ordered him to feed the hungry with loaves and fishes or raise Lazarus from the dead. Yet how often do we go to church because we were told we have to? Do we vol-unteer for the picnic only because the pastor twists our arm? Or do we love Jesus so much that we volunteer to help with-out being asked? Do we love Jesus enough to invite others to follow him?

We can live life just doing what we have to. Or when Jesus offers us a new motive—love for God because God loves us—we can choose to follow him freely. In John’s Gospel, there is no Agony in the Garden. He shows us that Jesus chose to obey his Father and willingly took up the cross. Let us ask the Spirit to fill us with the freedom to love.

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