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Mass Schedule: Vigil Masses - Saturdays 5:30 pm 7:00 pm (Spanish) Sundays 8:00 am, 10:00 am, 12:00 Noon 5:00 pm, 6:30 pm 8:00 pm (During school year) Monday - Friday 8:00 am & 12:05 pm Saturday 8:00 a.m.

Confessions: 11:30 a.m. Saturdays and by appointment

Baptisms: Please call the Parish Office at least one month in advance. Weddings: Please call the Parish Office at least six months in advance.

Office Hours: 10:00 am—6:00 pm Monday - Friday

Parish Clergy & Staff Msgr. Tomás M. Marín Pastor

Fr. Robert Ayala Parochial Vicar

Deacon Jose S. Chirinos

Deacon Mark Westman

Sofia Acosta Director of Religious Education

Jorge Pis-Rodriguez Director of Music

Myriam Cahen Director of Finances

Michelle Ducker Director of Campus Ministry & Young Adults

Toni Jane Palla o Director of Development and Student Center

Iancarlo Arispe Development Coordinator

Mercy Quintana Sacristan

Sunday, September 11th, 2016 Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time I will rise and go to my father. Exodus 32: 7 - 11, 13 - 14 Psalms 51: 3 - 4, 12 - 13, 17, 19 1 Timothy 1: 12 - 17 Luke 15: 1 - 32 Monday, September 12th, 2016 Monday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time Proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes again. 1 Corinthians 11: 17 – 26, 33 Psalm 40: 7 - 10, 17 Luke 7: 1 - 10 Tuesday, September 13th, 2016 Memorial of Saint John Chrysostom, Bishop and Doctor of the Church We are his people: the sheep of his flock. 1 Corinthians 12: 12 - 14, 27 - 31a Psalm 100: 1b - 5 Luke 7: 11 - 17 Wednesday, September 14th, 2016 Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross Do not forget the works of the Lord! Numbers 21: 4b - 9 Psalm 78: 1b - 2, 34 - 38 Philemon 2: 6 - 11 John 3: 13 - 17 Thursday, September 15th, 2016 Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good. 1 Corinthians 15: 1 - 11 Psalm 118: 1b - 2, 16ab - 17, 28 John 19: 25 - 27 Friday, September 16th, 2016 Memorial of Saints Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs Lord, when your glory appears, my joy will be full. 1 Corinthians 15: 12 - 20 Psalm 17: 1bcd, 6 - 7, 8b, 15 Luke 8: 1 - 3 Saturday, September 17th, 2016 Saturday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time I will walk in the presence of God, in the light of the living. 1 Corinthians 15: 35 - 37, 42 - 49 Psalms 56: 10c - 14 Luke 8: 4 - 15

Saturday, September 10th, 2016 5:30 p.m. + Cesareo Llano + Melissa Christina Rodriguez + Concepcion Gonzalez + Humberto Paredes + Javier Del Pozo Gonzalez - The Alumni of the Class of the Summer of 1976 of The Academy Of the Assumption 7:00 p.m. + Estinaslao & Felita Alvarez + Maria Camps Perez - Matthew LaLime - Ana & Andrea Reyes Sunday, September 11th, 2016 8:00 a.m. + Jose & Manuela Alvarez and Jose & Concepcion Puig + Alexander Puma + America Pineiro + Idania Ruiz - Samantha Amy Sears 10:00 a.m. + Hilda Bacardi + Luis J. Bacardi + Luis F. Bacardi + Roberto Morales + Jose Felipe Cos 12:00 p.m. - For the Parish Family 5:00 p.m. + Antonio G. Mora + Aldo Busot + Jose Rocha Pedraza & Family + Ana Luisa Ferrer de la Uz + Jose Ignacio Smith 6:30 p.m. + Mercy Cuervo + Margarita Peralta + Elvira Fong - Luis Castro Mendivil - Healing of Jose “Pepe” Merino 8:00 p.m. - University of Miami Students & Their Families - University of Miami Faculty & Staff Monday, September 12th, 2016 8:00 a.m. - In Thanksgiving - Health of Raquel Latour - Intentions of Juan M. Salvador 12:05 p.m. + Blanca & Colomina + Sixto Ferro + Jennifer Delphus - Luis Castro Mendivil - Aaron Cuenca Barrett

Tuesday, September 13th, 2016 8:00 a.m. - Health of Augusto Lopez 12:05 p.m. + Balsinde Mena Family + Santiago Fernandez Peña Jr. & Sr. - Aaron Cuenca-Barrett - In Thanksgiving for Health - Special Intentions Wednesday, September 14th, 2016 8:00 a.m. + Cecilia Meeker de la Torriente 12:05 p.m. + Jose Alvarez & Rodrigo Campbell + Hilda Diaz - In Thanksgiving - Luis Castro Mendivil - Aaron Cuenca-Barrett Thursday, September 15th, 2016 8:00 a.m. + 54th Wedding Anniversary of Juan & Sylvia Planas 12:05 p.m. + Luis R. Santeiro + Julia Basterrechea + Santiago Fernandez Peña Jr. & Sr. - Luis Castro Mendivil - Aaron Cuenca-Barrett Friday, September 16th, 2016 8:00 a.m. + Cristy Carriazo Pedroso - Rita & Alberto Garate - Intentions of the Castro-Fernandez Family 12:05 p.m. - In Thanksgiving - Angel Oscar - For the recovery of Mary Jean Miyar - Eduardo Angel Santos - Special Intention for the Fernandez Family Saturday, September 17th , 2016 8:00 a.m. + Thomas Benki - Manuel A. Dorta-Duque - All those in need who come or call St. Augustine Church and Catholic Student Center

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The Word on Fire by Bishop Robert Barron, from August 16, 2016 BEN-HUR: A TALE OF THE CHRIST, A TALE OF GRACE Lew Wallace’s nineteenth century novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, inspired two silent movies in the early decades of the twentieth century and the magnificent 1959 film starring Charlton Heston in the lead role. Almost everyone agrees that Heston was born to play the part, and who can forget the drama and excitement of the chariot race with which the movie comes to its climax? Roma Downey and Mark Burnett have produced a new instantiation of the story, a streamlined version of the 1959 film. Like its predecessor, this one features a charismatic actor (Jack Huston) as Ben-Hur, plenty of visual grandeur, and yes, a stunning chariot race, depicted this time with the most up to date camera technology and CGI virtuosity. But what principally differentiates it from the Heston Ben-Hur is its greater stress on the strange power of Christ to bring about forgiveness—an emphasis, I must say, much needed in the cultural context of the present moment. I suppose that most of us know the basic story rather well. Judah Ben-Hur is a Jewish nobleman living with his aristocratic family in an elegant home in Roman-occupied Jerusalem at the time of Christ. Messala is a young Roman whom the family adopted and who has become, effectively, a brother to Judah. In the recent version, Messala pursues a career as a Roman soldier, fighting in some of the most distant outposts of the empire. Upon his return, he reunites with his family, but when it appears that they have been harboring a Zealot opponent of the empire, he turns on them brutally, sending most to prison and sentencing Judah to the hellish life of a Roman galley slave. During five excruciating years chained to oars in imperial ships, Judah cultivates an exquisite hatred for Messala and a passionate desire for revenge. In the wake of a terrible sea-battle, Judah escapes from his chains and he drifts ashore, only to be found by Sheik Ilderim (Morgan Freeman), a wealthy merchant who moonlights as a sponsor of a fine team of chariot horses. After training the former galley slave in the fine art of chariot racing, the Sheik sets Judah up for a confrontation with Messala in the Jerusalem arena. It is precisely at this climactic point that the major differences between the new film and the Heston version emerge. In both films, of course, Judah manages, after a titanic struggle, to defeat Messala, and in both films, Messala endures a terrible injury. But whereas in the earlier incarnation, the Roman dies, having breathed his last words in anger and frustration, in this film, Judah forgives his brother, and the two embrace once again. Moreover, Messala survives his injuries, and the final scene shows the erstwhile mortal enemies riding together in friendship. Now what made this reconciliation possible? How is it even imaginable that someone who had been so cruelly mistreated could become friends again with the man who had abused him? If the history of human conflict teaches us anything it is that the lex talionis (eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth), the measured answering of pain with a comparable pain, is actually the best that we can expect. In the normal course of affairs, injustice and violence are, in fact, met with a disproportionately greater injustice and violence. To see these dynamics at work, all you have to do is read the paper or watch the news any day of the week. So how could the reconciliation of Judah and Messala be anything but sentimentalizing and wish-fulfilling fantasy? It is imperative at this point that we recall that all of the Ben-Hur films are grounded in a book whose subtitle is “A Tale of the Christ.” Even though he is on film for only a few brief scenes, Jesus is indeed the key to the entire drama. Having met Jesus in a fleeting way prior to his exile and enslavement, Judah, upon his return to Jerusalem, is drawn to the site of the crucifixion. He stares up at the crucified Christ who speaks a word of forgiveness even as he is tortured to death. With that Judah grasps something in his heart and re-leases a stone (evocative of his revenge) which he had been clenching in his hand. He comprehends what stands at the very center of Christianity, namely, the terrible act by which God took upon himself the cruelty, violence, injustice, hatred, and stupidity of the world and, after a bitter struggle, swallowed them up in the

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Monday, September 12th, 2016 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. : RCIA @ Lounge Tuesday, September 13th, 2016 11:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. : Tabling on Campus @ UM Breezeway 1:00-2:00 p.m. : Confessions on Campus @ UM Breezeway 6:30 p.m. : Mass @ Church 7:00 p.m. : Meal for Students @ Library 8:00 p.m. : Young Adult Group @ Parish Hall Wednesday, September 14th, 2016 6:30 p.m. : Sandwich Making for Homeless @ Lounge Thursday, September 15th, 2016 8:30 a.m. : Soup Making for Homeless @ Kitchen 12:35 p.m. : Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament with Adoration until 8:00 p.m. @ Church 7:00-8:00 p.m. : Young Adult Group Holy Hour @ Church 8:00 p.m. : Thrive College Night @ Parish Hall 8:00 p.m. : Matrimonios En Victoria @ Lounge Friday, September 16th, 2016 Saturday, September 17th, 2016 8:30 a.m. : Pray the Rosary after the 8:00 a.m. Mass @ Church 11:30 a.m. : Confessions @ Church 10:00 a.m. : Reader Training @ Church 1:00 p.m. : Eucharistic Ministers of Holy Communion (EMHC) Training @ Church


ever greater divine mercy. He understood God’s forgiveness of the sins of all of humanity, and he thereby found the grace to become a vehicle of forgiveness to someone who had harmed him so awfully: “Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.” From a purely human standpoint, this sort of forgiveness is impossible; but with God all things are possible. To tell a tale of Christ is to tell a tale of grace. This, I believe, is what Roma Downey and Mark Burnett, who have emerged as two of the more ef-fective evangelists in the world today, wanted us to see in this updated Ben-Hur.

Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Schedule of Masses (may be subject to change)

Saturday September 24th, 2016 5:30 p.m. : Fr. Robert Ayala 7:00 p.m. : Msgr. Tomás M. Marín Sunday September 25th, 2016 8:00 a.m. : Fr. Robert Ayala 10:00 a.m. : Msgr. Tomás M. Marín 12:00 p.m. : Fr. Robert Ayala 5:00 p.m. : Msgr. Tomás M. Marín 6:30 p.m. : Fr. Robert Ayala 8:00 p.m. : Msgr. Tomás M. Marín

Last Week’s Collection Thank you for your generosity!

Friday September 3rd, 2016 (Homeless Ministry Collection) 12:00 p.m. : $ 449.00 Saturday September 4th, 2016 5:30 p.m. : $ 1,499.00 7:00 p.m. : $ 496.00 Sunday September 5th, 2016 8:00 a.m. : $ 1,778.00 10:00 a.m. : $ 2,746.50 12:00 p.m. : $ 2,032.00 5:00 p.m. : $ 1,315.00 6:30 p.m. : $ 2,077.00 8:00 p.m. : $ 523.00 Other: $ 143.23 Mail: $ 28,630.95 Parish Gala: $ 1,950.00 Total: $ 44,413.68


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