Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church 300 Fulton Street ▪ Redwood City, CA 94062 Tel. (650) 366-3802 ▪ Fax: (650) 366-1421 Udaquila@mountcarmel.org imelendez@mountcarmel.org ▪ www.mountcarmel.org

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.

The Fifth Sunday of Easter ~ May 10, 2020

Parish Phones Parish Center Office: (650) 366-3802 Pastor’s Office: (650) 306-9583 Religious Education Office: (650) 368-8237 Mt. Carmel School Office: (650) 366-6127 Mt. Carmel Pre-School: (650) 366-6587 Parish Staff Pastor: Rev. Ulysses D’Aquila Deacon: Rev. Mr. Thomas J. Boyle Principal: Dr. Deborah Farrington Administrative Assistant: Ivette Meléndez Director of Religious Ed.: Magdalena Hernández Youth Confirmation: Judy Draper Director of Music: Bianca Remlinger Pre-School Director: Maureen Arnott

Parish Center Hours Monday to Friday: 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Mass Schedule Sunday: 8:00 am, 10:00 am, 12:00 pm (Español), and 5 pm Saturday: 8: 15 am and 5:00 pm Vigil Mass Monday to Friday 8:15 am Reconciliation/Confession Saturday 3:30 –4:30 pm

In the weeks following Easter we’ve been reading from the New Testament book, Acts of the Apostles. This book is our best historical source for what happened immediately following death and resurrection of Jesus. Acts especially focuses on the Apostles, Jesus’ closest followers whom he had elected to carry on his mission after he himself returned to the Father in heaven. Recently we’ve honored with special feasts the Apostle and Evangelist, St. Mark, as well as the Apostles, St. Philip and St. James. We know that Philip was one of the original Twelve and one of the first chosen by Jesus. He had been a disciple of John the Baptist but then was drawn into Jesus’ circle. At the miraculous feeding of 5,000 people, it was Philip who pointed out to Jesus that they only had a small amount of bread, insufficient for such a large crowd. Philip was also in the upper room when the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles at Pentecost. In the Gospel selected for his feast, Philip asks Jesus to show them the Heavenly Father. Jesus responds: “Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.” It is from such remarks that we understand that Jesus is God himself, the human incarnation of the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity. Regarding the other Apostle, St. James, who shares his feast day with St. Philip, there has always been some confusion. This is because there are two Apostles named James. The St. James we recently honored is often called James the Minor simply because he was younger than the other St. James. It was this St. James whose mother, also named Mary, was present with St. John and Jesus’ mother, Mary, at the foot of the Cross on Good Friday when Jesus died. The Gospels suggest that John was the Apostle of whom Jesus was fondest, and that the Apostle St. Jude Thaddeus was Jesus’ cousin. We also know that two sets of the Apostles were brothers. So there must have been a deep intimacy among all the Apostles and, after the Resurrection, a strong sense of the great mission that had been entrusted to them by our Lord. After the terrible betrayal of Judas Iscariot, the Apostles selected another, St. Matthias, to keep their number at twelve. Our honoring of the Twelve reminds us of the importance of what we call ‘Apostolic Succession’. What Jesus taught he passed on directly to his Apostles for all times, and they in turned passed on this eternal “deposit of faith” to others in a continued line to the present day. St. Paul says: “I handed on to you what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures; that he was buried; that he was raised on the third day; that he appeared to Peter, then to James, then to all the Apostles.” It is through this same Gospel, given to us by the Apostles, that we are saved, if we only believe and follow it in faith. Fr. Ulysses

En las semanas que siguen la Pascua, hemos estado leyendo del libro Hechos de los Apóstoles. Este libro es nuestra mejor fuente histórica de lo que sucedió inmediatamente después de la muerte y resurrección de Jesús. Hechos se centra especialmente en los Apóstoles, los seguidores más cercanos de Jesús a quienes había elegido para llevar a

cabo su misión después de que él mismo regresó al Padre en el cielo. Recientemente hemos honrado con fiestas especiales al Apóstol y Evangelista, San Marcos, así como a los Apósto-les, San Felipe y Santiago. Sabemos que Felipe fue uno de los Doce originales y uno de los primeros escogidos por Jesús. Había sido discípulo de Juan Bautista, pero luego fue llevado al

círculo de Jesús. En la alimentación milagrosa de 5,000 personas, fue Felipe quien le señaló a Jesús que solo tenían una pequeña cantidad de pan, insuficiente para una multitud tan grande. Felipe también estaba en el cuarto cuando el Espíritu Santo descendió sobre los Apóstoles en Pentecostés. En el Evangelio seleccionado para su fiesta, Felipe le pide a Jesús que les muestre al Padre Celestial. Jesús responde: "El que me ha visto a mí, ha visto al Padre". Es a partir de tales comentarios que entendemos que Jesús es Dios mismo, la encarnación humana de la Segunda Persona de la Santísima Trinidad. Con respecto al otro Apóstol, Santiago, que comparte su fiesta con San Felipe, siempre ha sido una cierta confusión. Esto se debe a

que hay dos apóstoles llamados Santiago. El Santiago que honramos recientemente a menudo se llama Santiago el Menor porque era más joven que el otro Santiago. Fue este Santiago cuya madre, también llamada María, estuvo presente con San Juan y la madre de Jesús, María, al pie de la Cruz el Viernes Santo cuando Jesús murió. Los Evangelios sugieren que Juan era el apóstol a quien Jesús más quería, y que el apóstol San Judas Tadeo era primo de Jesús. También sabemos que otros de los apóstoles eran hermanos. Entonces debe haber una profunda intimidad entre todos los Apóstoles y, después de la Resurrección, un fuerte sentido de la gran misión que nuestro Señor les había confiado. Después de la terrible traición de Judas Iscariote, los Apóstoles seleccionaron a otro, San Matías, para mantener su número a doce. Nuestro honor a los Doce nos recuerda la importancia de lo que llamamos "Sucesión Apostólica". Lo que Jesús enseñó lo transmitió directamente a sus Apóstoles, y ellos a su vez transmitieron este eterno "depósito de fe" a otros en una línea continua hasta el día de hoy. San Pablo dice: “Te entregué lo que también recibí: que Cristo murió por nuestros pecados de acuerdo con las Escrituras; que fue enterrado; que resucitó al tercer día; que se le apareció a Pedro, después a Santiago, luego a todos los Apóstoles ". Es a través de este mismo Evangelio, dado a nosotros por los Apóstoles, que somos salvos, si solo creemos y lo seguimos con fe. Padre Ulises

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is for Religious Education Program. It supports our School of Religion, including classes for First Communion, preparation for

Confirmation and our Adult Education Program (RCIA). It also covers the Children’s Liturgy, Youth Retreats, and the training of catechists.

Next Week’s Second Collection will be for our Liturgy Fund.

Th_ 2020 @r]h^io]_s[n @nnu[l @pp_[l. Our assessment for this year is $78,484, or 20% of our last year’s income. To date, we have received $26,550. Please consider what you might do to help us meet our obligation by the end of the year. Thank you very much!

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M[ss Int_ntions Saturday, May 09, 2020 5:00 PM Familia Lopez (Int.) Sunday, May 10, 2020 8:00 AM Georgette Absi † 10:00 AM Sandrini family (Int.) 12:00 PM Maria Luisa Alvarez † 5:00 PM Marlene Muscat † Monday, May 11, 2020 8:15 AM Dolores Hodges † Tuesday, May 12, 2020 8:15 AM Norma Jackson † Wednesday, May 13, 2020 8:15 AM Karmin Gannon (Int,) Thursday, May 14, 2020 8:15 AM Matthew Smith † Friday, May 15, 2020 8:15 AM Joseph Quezada Jr. † Saturday, May 16, 2020 8:15 AM Difuntos de la Familia Rodriguez †

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Saints and Special Observances

Sunday: Fifth Sunday of Easter (Mothers’ Day) Monday : of the Fifth Week of Easter Tuesday: Sts. Nereus, Achilleus, Pancras, Martyrs Wednesday: Our Lady of Fatima Thursday: Saint Matthias, Apostle Friday: Saint Isidore Saturday: of the Fifth Week of Easter

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