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Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church
Sunday January 8, 2017 Epiphany of the Lord
Parish Office & Hours
10110 N. Central Ave. Tampa, FL 33612 Tuesday – Friday: 9:30 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. Phone: 813-933-2859 Fax: 813-932-6153 Email: [email protected] Website: MHRTampa.Org Twitter: @MHRTampa Facebook: Facebook.com/MHRTampa
Mass Schedule Saturday Vigil: 5:00 p.m. Sunday: 8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m. & 12:30 p.m. (Español) Monday - Friday: 6:45 a.m. Tues: 6:45 & 8:30 a.m. Saturday: 8:30 a.m.
Confessions Saturday: 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Or by appointment
Clergy Pastor Rev. Allan Tupa [email protected] Assisting Priest: Msgr. Des Daly Deacons: Rev. Mr. Kevin Dwyer Rev. Mr. Joseph Krzanowski Rev. Mr. Ron Rojas
About the Epiphany Offertory Information Prayer List
Retrouvaille Retreat Sign up for Latin Class Mass Intentions
What’s inside this week:
Parish Weekly Calendar
Parish Facility Room Codes. Please contact the church office to reserve a meeting space for your group.
MC: Main Church BR: Benefactor Room MS: Mary Serina Room KT: Kitchen CR: St. Claire Room
DC: Duffy Center KOC: Knights of Columbus Room PR: Weber Room PS: Padre Pio Shrine YD: Youth Den
Date Mass Intentions Events Saturday January 7 St. Raymond of Penyafort; First Saturday
8:30 a.m. ~ Fr. Alfonso Pagliara + 5:00 p.m. ~ Tom Young +
3:30 p.m. Confessions
Sunday January 8 8:00 a.m. ~ Rosa Del Rosario & Ellen Padilla healing graces 10:00 a.m. ~ Janey Carroll, Healing Graces 12:30 p.m. ~ Luis Ares +
9:00 a.m. Coffee & Doughnuts (DC) 11:00 a.m. RCIA (BF)
Monday January 9 6:45 a.m. ~ David & Estela, Marriage Blessings
6:30 p.m. MDS (MS & BF) Building Committee (KOC) 7:00 p.m. Men’s Club (PR)
Tuesday January 10 6:45 a.m. ~ Dolton Peppers Birthday Blessings 8:30 a.m. ~ Vocation to Priesthood & religious life
Food Pantry 7:00 p.m. Liturgy Committee (PR)
Wednesday January 11 6:45 a.m. ~ Albert Paul Naymick + 6:30 p.m Youth Group (YD) 7:00 p.m. RCIA (MS)
Thursday January 12 6:45 a.m. ~ Juan Francisco Ferrer Rivero +
7:00 p.m. Baptism Class (KOC)
Friday January 13 6:45 a.m. ~ Gabina De La Rosa +
Saturday January 14 8:30 a.m. ~ Tina Reilly & Marie O'Driscoll General Blessings 5:00 p.m. ~ Deacon Ted & Maureen
3:30 p.m. Confessions
Sunday January 15 8:00 a.m. ~ Raymond Rhode+ 10:00 a.m. ~ Janey Carroll, Healing Graces 12:30 p.m. ~ Deceased members of the Gerard Family +
9:00 a.m. Coffee & Doughnuts (DC) 11:00 a.m. RCIA (BF)
The Latin class of Most Holy Redeemer parish will welcome new students on 1/19/17 at 6:30 p.m. To register, write [email protected] or call (813) 748-0746. Lingua Latina est thesaurus incomparandae praestantiae - The Latin language is a treasure of incomparable value.
Around the Diocese
Catholic Foundation Celebration
How would you like a fun night out? That's exactly what the 2017 Catholic Foundation Celebration offers. The Celebration will be at the Hilton Tampa Downtown on February 11, 2017 at 6:00 PM. Our keynote this year is ESPN NFL Analyst and Catholic School Advocate, Herm Edwards. We will also be having a Live Auction this year with some great items to bid on, all for a great cause. Join us and help us to give the gift of a Catholic education to families throughout the Diocese. Information can be found online at http://catholicfoundation.org/celebration or call 727-374-0220.
Catholic Relief Services– Mini Grants Available The Office of Life Ministry is pleased to announce the opening of a new grant application process for funding innovative local hunger and poverty alleviation efforts, justice education or start-up for CRS projects. Twenty-five percent of our diocesan CRS Rice Bowl collections are retained and have been made available for grants up to $1000.00. Ministries from parishes, schools, and other diocesan entities are eligible to apply. Applications are available online. Deadline is Feb. 20, 2017.
Courage Courage is an apostolate of the Catholic Church, which ministers to persons with same-sex attractions, helping them to live chaste lives in fellowship, truth and love. The next meeting is scheduled to take place at Christ the King Parish, 821 South Dale Mabry Highway in Tampa on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month beginning in January. Confidential contact: [email protected] or Sabrina at 727-344-1611 *5325.
Retrouvaille Weekend
Marriage Troubles? If your marriage has become troubled and stressed, unloving or uncaring; if you have grown cold and distant; even if you are divorced or separated, or are thinking about it, Retrouvaille can help, as it has helped tens of thousands of others. Our next program begins February 10-12, 2017. For more information, visitwww.HelpOurMarriage.com or call 813-906-7705.Not counseling or group therapy. All contacts and names held in strictest confidence
Weekly gift reference guide as a percentage of yearly
family income:
1/10/16
$7.598
Offertory
Income Weekly gi of 2% Weekly gi of 3% Weekly gi of 5% Weekly gi of 10% $30,000 $12 $17 $29 $58 $50,000 $19 $29 $48 $96 $75,000 $29 $43 $72 $144
$100,000 $38 $58 $96 $192
Parish Information
“Then they opened their treasures and offered him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.” Matthew 2:11
The image of the Magi kneeling before the infant Jesus and opening their treasure chests for Him is an image that we should all try to follow all year long. In gratitude for all that we have been given, we are called to generously share all of our gifts, not just the ones we pick and choose. God wants us to be the most generous with that one thing that means
the most to us.
12/20/15 12/18/2016
$9,291 $7,872
Looking for a space to hold a special event? Consider the Duffy Center. Available for weddings, Quinceaneras, retirement parties, family reunions and much more. Contact the Most Holy Redeemer Parish office at 813.933.2859, visit DuffyCenter.com or email [email protected] Está
buscando un espacio para realizar un evento especial? Considere el Centro Duffy. Disponible para bodas, quinceañeras, fiestas de retiro, reuniones familiares y mucho más. Póngase en contacto con la oficina Parroquial de Most Holy Redeemer al 813.933.2859, visite DuffyCenter.com o correo electrónico
Please remember in your prayers all those who are homebound, in the hospital or nursing homes and all the sick of our parish especially , Lily Pensiero, Matthew Ryan Hertel, Ana Hernandez, Providencia Santiago, Raymond Pierre, Morgan St. Fleur, Francisco Rivera, Deyanira Escalante, Anthony Zolnowski , Joel Ortiz, JR, Meisner V Ortiz, Laura Vukov, Eleanor Bagette, Betty LaRue, KG, Eileen Mason, June Reynolds, Don Rothell, , Leonor Perez Rodriguez , Pat Fiore, Joe Brickhouse, Tim Burkett Loretta Abernathy, Nicole Pagan, Rosemary Yanez, Robert C. Smith, Priscilla Slotter, Karen Smith, Sam Lazzara, Gabriel Martinez, Marie, O’Driscoll, William Valentine, Janey Carroll If you wish to have a name added or removed from our Prayer List, please call 813-933-2859. Names will be removed after 2 months, please call to have name relisted if desired.
We welcome visitors and newcomers to Most Holy Redeemer! We encourage new parishioners to register as parish members and become active in our parish community. Registration forms are available at the entrance to church or please call the parish office at 813-933-2859. Le damos la bienvenida a los visitantes y recién llegados a Most Holy Redeemer! Les alen-tamos a los nuevos feligreses a registrarse como miembros de la parroquia y de participar activamen-te en nuestra comunidad parroquial. Los formularios de inscripción están disponibles en la entrada de la iglesia, por favor llame a la oficina parroquial al 813-933-2859.
$53,549 $97,032
$15,000
2016 MHR Annual Pastoral Appeal (APA) Goals
Weekly Sacrificial Giving
$51,150
$45,882
What is the Epiphany? In order to celebrate this feast of Manifes-tation more fully, we need to know more about the theology and significance of this great feast of Epiphany. Elsa Chaney ex-plains in layman's terms about this feast. Some of the references to the liturgy and divine office refer to pre-Vatican II rites, but all the insights are still applicable.
The feast of manifestation, or Epiphany, is traditionally celebrated the 12th day after Christmas, January 6th. In the dioceses of the United States this feast has been moved to the Sunday between January 2 and January 8.
For many years in the English speaking world the feast of Epiphany has been over-shadowed by that of Christmas. But unless we realize the significance of this great day, we see only one side of the mystery of the Incarnation. Now after contemplating the staggering fact that God has become a human child, we turn to look at this mystery from the opposite angle and realize that this seemingly helpless Child is, in fact, the omnipotent God, the King and Ruler of the universe. The feast of Christ's divinity com-pletes the feast of His humanity. It fulfills all our Advent longing for the King "who is come with great power and majesty." We see that whereas Christmas is the family feast of Christianity, Epiphany is the great "world feast of the Catholic Church."
Epiphany is a complex feast. Originating in the Eastern Church and formed by the mentality of a people whose thought pro-cesses differ sharply from our own, the Epiphany is like a rich Oriental tapestry in which the various themes are woven and interwoven — now to be seen in their his-torical setting, again to be viewed from a different vantage point in their deep mysti-cal significance. In this brief introduction four of the main ideas of the Epiphany will be outlined.
Divine manifestation: The Epiphany takes its name from the Greek epiphania, which denotes the visit of a god to earth. The first idea of the feast is the manifestation of Christ as the Son of God. "Begotten before the daystar and before all ages, the Lord our Savior is this day made manifest to the world." The feast unites three events in the life of Christ when His divinity, as it were, shines through His humanity: the adoration of the Magi; the baptism of Christ in the Jordan; and the first miracle at the wedding feast of Cana. Moreover, at Epiphany the
Church looks forward to the majestic com-ing of Christ on the "youngest day" when His manifestation as God will be complete. The Gospels of the baptism and the mar-riage at Cana are read on the Octave Day and the Second Sunday after Epiphany, and later Sunday masses in the Epiphany season continue to show the divine power of our Lord in some of His most striking miracles.
Royal kingship: A second important idea in Epiphany is the extension of Christ's king-ship to the whole world. The revelation of Christ to the three kings at Bethlehem is a symbol of His revelation to the whole of the Gentile world. Epiphany presents to us the calling of not merely a chosen few, but all nations to Christianity.
Your Light is Come: Closely linked to both these themes of divine manifestation and world kingship is a third idea running through the Epiphany feast: that of light. During Advent, the world was in darkness, and we prayed and waited in the spirit of the Jewish nation which lived in expecta-tion of the Coming Light during thousands of years. At Christmas the Light shone forth, but dimly, seen only by a few around the crib: Mary and Joseph and the shep-herds. But at Epiphany the Light bursts forth to all nations and the prophecy is ful-filled: "The Gentiles shall walk in Thy light, and kings in the brightness of Thy rising." The mysterious star of Epiphany, "flashing like a flame," is still another facet of the light-motif, a symbol capable of being inter-preted in a dozen different ways.
How much food for thought and reflection is contained in just these three ideas, and what a significance they have for our own time! Epiphany lifts our eyes from the fami-ly celebrations and demands that we should include in our vision "all the ends of the earth." It demands that, like the three wise men, we should have the courage to follow the light of the star we have seen, however hazardous the journey; that the light of our faith, like that of the wise men, should be so strong that we are able to see and recognize our Lord and Ruler in how-ever unexpected a way He may present Himself to us; and that having recognized Him, we should bow down and adore Him, offering Him our total loyalty.
Moreover, Epiphany demands that like these kings we should return to our own countries a different way, carrying to all
those we meet the light of Christ. "For be-hold, darkness shall cover the earth," says the Epistle of the Epiphany Mass, "and a mist the people: but the Lord shall arise upon Thee, and His glory shall be seen upon Thee. And the Gentiles shall walk in Thy light. . ." These words may be applied to us, upon whom the light of Christ has indeed risen, and who have the responsi-bility to radiate that light in the darkness of our own world. It is clear how much the feast of Epiphany must mean to all who are engaged in the apostolate and are striving to extend the kingdom of Christ.
The royal nuptials: Besides the important ideas outlined above, there is still another great theme threaded through the Epipha-ny feast—the theme of the royal nuptials, the wedding of Christ with humanity. It is an idea on a completely different level from the historical events which the Epiphany celebrates, yet inextricably bound up with them; for example, the historical marriage feast of Cana is used by the Church to suggest the setting for Christ's nuptials with the Church; the wise men represent not only the three Persian Magi adoring the Babe 2000 years ago at Bethlehem, but also the Gentile world hurrying to the wed-ding feast at the end of time when man-kind's nuptials with the divine Bridegroom will be celebrated; the gold, frankincense and myrrh are not only tokens for the little Baby King in the stable, but royal wedding gifts for the mystical marriage feast of heaven.
The Epiphany antiphon for the hour of Lauds brings out strikingly this theme of the divine marriage of Christ with humanity, and at the same time shows the deep mys-tical significance behind the historical events surrounding the feast. Perhaps no-where more clearly than in this antiphon do we see that on Epiphany we do not com-memorate a set of historical facts as much as we celebrate a great mystery: "This day the Church is joined to her heavenly Spouse, for Christ has cleansed her crimes in the Jordan. With gifts the Magi hasten to the royal nuptials, and the guests are glad-dened with wine made from water."
Activity Source: Twelve Days of Christmas, The by Elsa Chaney, The Liturgical Press, Collegeville, MN, 1955
Who to Contact to Get Involved Altar Servers - Herman Ortiz & Jeanie Legendre
Espanol: Herman Ortiz, 813.810.9581, [email protected], English: Jeanie LeGendre, 813.727.7642, [email protected]
Presenter of the Gifts - Rachel Daigneault
932-0767
Dialogo Matrimonial (MDS) 813-842-5614 or 813-842-5632 Jonas & Mary Leyva [email protected]
Pastoral Council - Shawn Carson 962-0726 [email protected]
Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion - April Fiore
731-8685 [email protected] Religious Education – Dottie Vinson (children)
933-2859 [email protected]
Eucharistic Visitors - Beverly Mikolash
610-3223 [email protected] RCIA – Denise Dwyer 813-263-5957 [email protected]
Finance Committee - Cindy Tozier
933-2859 Readers - English– Laura Kuechenberg Spanish- Gertrudis Salazar
813.238.0563, [email protected] (Laura)
943-1186 (Gertrudis) Food Pantry - Rene Morissette 932-0207 [email protected] Respect Life - Shawn & Patty
Carson 962-0736 [email protected]
Handmaids of Mary - Beverly Mikolash
813-962-8380 Schola Latina - Don Ryan 748-0746 [email protected]
Hospitality Committee - Debbie Jahnigen
813-363-3980 Senior Adult Organization - Mary Robbins
960-2219
Juan 23 Prayer Group -
Rosa Duran
813-468-5900
Secular Franciscans - Shirley Conway
813-988-2688
Knights of Columbus - Ronald Haebig
813-949-8726 home 813-786-4823 [email protected]
Servants of the Redeemer– Rene Morissette
932-0207
Legion of Mary - Natalie Rojas 813-445-9745 [email protected] Espanol Prayer Group -Jorge Cruz 813-935-4462 Liturgy Coordinator (English)- Deacon Joe
933-2859 Special Events Committee - Christina Perez
813.727.1994 [email protected]
Marriage Coordinator - Stewardship Council - Maruchi Rodriguez [email protected]
Men’s Club - John Lutkus 545-9530 [email protected] Vocation Enrichment Ministry - Ron Haebig
813-786-4823
Ministry of Praise - Donnell
Sucarichi [email protected] Ushers - English-Buddy Blackburn
Espanol - Carmen Roldan 813.833.5717 [email protected] (Buddy) 770-6216 (Carmen)
Music Ministry - Eriene LeGendre
933-2859 Youth Group - Tom Antonini Herman Ortiz
933-2859
Padre Pio Prayer Group Rosary 813-933-2859
EPIPHANY Solemn things of mystic meaning:
Incense doth the God disclose; Gold a royal Child proclaimeth; Myrrh a future tomb foreshows. --Roman Breviary, Epiphany;
Prudentius, fourth century
