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

Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord March 27, 2016 Parish Center Hours Monday - Thursday 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Parish Staff

Pastor: Rev. Ulysses D’Aquila - 306-9583 Deacon: Rev. Mr. Thomas J. Boyle - 366-3802 Principal: Teresa Anthony - 366-6127 Development: Nori Jabba - 366-8817 Kid’s Place: Maureen Arnott – 366-6587 CCD: Magdalena Hernández - 368-8237 Youth Ministry: Kendra & Jason Rickwald - 918-0815 Youth Confirmation: Paula Martinez – 366-6194 Director of Music: Bianca Remlinger - 366-3802 Spanish Music Ministry: Andres Garcia -366 -3802 Administrative Assistant: Alba Canelo – 366 -3802

Mass Schedule Sunday:

8:00 am, 10:00 am, 12:00 pm (español), and 5pm Saturday: 8: 15 am and 5:00 pm Vigil Mass Monday to Friday 8:15 am Reconciliation/Confession Saturday 3:30 –4:30 p.m.

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

Weddings / Bodas To him all the prophets bear witness, that everyone who believes in him will receive forgiveness of sins through his name. — Acts 10:43

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.

Notes from Our Pastor

Notas de Nuestro Párroco

This Sunday with great joy we’ll be celebrating Easter, the feast of our Lord’s Resurrection from the dead. After that, we enter into the Fifty Days of our Risen Lord when Jesus on numerous occasions appeared to his disciples to assure them that, as he had promised, he would come back from the tomb and continue to guide them. During this time, we adorn our churches in white and gold and fill them with flowers. We celebrate baptisms and weddings; we ring bells during Mass and sing alleluias at the Gospel. There’s a tendency to forget the grim realities of Holy Week: the bloody scourging, the agonizing climb up Mt. Calvary, the hideous crunch of nails into flesh. But should we forget? Did the apostles not remain traumatized long after the event of the Passion? Did they ever forget, most of all, that one of Jesus’ closest associates had betrayed him? Actually, this has always posed a great problem for scholars and for ordinary Christians who ask, “Was Jesus such a poor judge of character that he would include among his trusted followers a man like Judas Iscariot?” We know from the Scripture that Judas was the treasurer of the group, responsible for keeping the money and buying what they needed. He was, after all, one of the specially chosen twelve apostles. Jesus and the others must have known him very well indeed. But the answer has to be that, yes, Jesus did trust sinners. From the beginning, he had called common men and women to follow him. He had called them from their regular lives and occupations, and sometimes he even called them out of a life of sin. And that’s why we can call ourselves disciples, because we know that even though we so often betray Jesus through our behavior and our thoughts and our words, Jesus nonetheless loves us and wants us to be saved. Judas Iscariot was probably not more inherently bad than many other people. Maybe for a time he was a good steward of the money and a faithful follower of Jesus. But greed and jealousy and envy and hatred – those very ordinary sins – finally got the best of him, and Satan took over. Yet even in his terrible act of betrayal, Judas without knowing it helps to fulfill God’s plan of salvation. Furthermore, even the great Apostle Peter, the Rock upon whom Jesus builds his Church, falls victim to human weakness. At the last minute, losing his nerve, he actually denies that he knows Jesus! But the difference between Judas and Peter is this: Peter repents and in his repentance, he is forgiven. He goes on for the rest of his life to spread the Lord’s message, building up Christ’s Church, a Church which has now survived for two millennia and will last until Christ comes again in glory at the end of the ages. What this means for us is that Christ’s Passion, Death and Resurrection was not an event of the past, over and done with. Christ’s Paschal Mystery will be prolonged to the end of time, until there is no more sin to suffer for, and no one left to redeem.

Este domingo celebramos la Pascua, es decir la resurrección de nuestro Señor de entre los muertos. Después de eso, entramos en los cincuenta días de gozo cuando Jesús en numerosas ocasiones se presentó a sus discípulos para asegurarles que, como había prometido, volvería de la muerte. Durante este tiempo, adornamos nuestras iglesias de blanco y dorado y la llenamos de flores. Celebramos bautismos y bodas; cantamos aleluyas antes del Evangelio. Hay una tendencia de olvidar la dura realidad de Semana Santa: la flagelación de Jesús, su camino al Calvario, su horrible crucifixión. Pero ¿hay que olvidar? ¿No fueron los apóstoles traumatizados después del evento de la pasión? ¿Olvidaron, sobre todo, que uno de los apóstoles más cercanos de Jesús lo había traicionado? Esto siempre ha preocupado a los estudiosos de la Biblia. Se preguntan, "¿Era Jesús tan pobre de carácter que escogería un hombre como Judas Iscariote para seguirlo?" Sabemos por la Escritura que Judas era el tesorero del grupo, responsable de mantener el dinero y comprar lo que necesitaban, una persona bien conocida por Jesús y los demás apóstoles. Sin embargo, la respuesta tiene que ser sí, Jesús puso su confianza en pecadores. Desde el principio, había llamado a hombres y mujeres comunes a seguirlo. Los había llamado desde sus vidas y ocupaciones cotidianas, y a veces incluso los llamó de una vida pecaminosa. Es por eso que podemos decir que somos discípulos, porque sabemos que a pesar de nuestros pecados, Jesús nos ama y solo quiere que seamos salvados. Judas Iscariote probablemente no era peor que muchas otras personas. Tal vez era, por un tiempo, un buen administrador del dinero y un fiel seguidor de Jesús. Pero la codicia, y los celos, y la envidia, y el odio - esos pecados muy ordinarios finalmente consiguieron lo mejor de él, y Satanás tomo control. Sin embargo, Judas, sin saberlo, ayudó a cumplir el plan de salvación de Dios. Así es que también el gran apóstol Pedro, la roca sobre la que Jesús edifico su Iglesia, cayó víctima de la debilidad humana. En el último momento, temeroso a lo que iba a pasar, negó que era discípulo de Jesús. Pero la diferencia entre Judas y Pedro es esto: Pedro se arrepiento y en su arrepentimiento, fue perdonado. Por el resto de su vida trabajó para difundir el evangelio de Jesucristo, edificando la Iglesia, una Iglesia que ahora ha sobrevivido durante dos milenios y que durará hasta que Cristo venga de nuevo en gloria al final de los tiempos. Lo que esto significa para nosotros es que de la Pasión, Muerte y Resurrección no fue un hecho del pasado, ya terminado. El Misterio Pascual de Cristo nunca termina hasta el fin de los tiempos, hasta que no haya más pecado para sufrir, y nadie más para redimir.

Happy Easter to you all! Fr. Ulysses

¡Felices Pascuas a todos! P. Ulises

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Confirmation Rehearsal Wednesday, April 6 at 7:00 p.m. in the Church.

First Communion Rehearsal Thursday, April 7 at 6:00 p.m. and at 7:00 p.m. beginning in the Large Hall

Confirmation Mass with Bishop Justice Friday, April 8 at 5:00 p.m. in the Church. First Communion Masses, April 9: 10:00 a.m. and at 1:00 p.m.

YOUTH MINISTRY APRIL 2016 SCHEDULE Sunday, April 10—YM meeting in OLMC Gym/ Small Hall followed by Mass, 3pm– 6pm. Sunday, April 24 YM meeting in OLMC Small Hall only, followed by Mass from 3pm-6pm. (Last official meeting of the school year).

HOMEBOUND MINISTRY If someone in your family is homebound, lives nearby and is unable to attend Mass, but would like to received the Eucharist, please contact Julie O’Leary at (650) 361-8681. Communion ministers are needed to bring the Eucharist to homebound parishioners. Please call Julie O’Leary if you would like to participate in this worthy ministry.

Holy Hour / Happy Hour Young adults in their 20s and 30s are encouraged to join us for a Holy Hour at Nativity parish (210 Oak Grove, Menlo Park) on Tuesdays from 8pm-9pm, followed by drinks at a local pub. If you have any questions, please e-mail [email protected]

Jubilee Year of Mercy

March 27, 2016 Easter Sunday: The Resurrection of the Lord This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad. Alleluia! Easter is always, but especially in this Jubilee Year of Mercy, the victory of God’s gentle but invincible mercy raising up Jesus, “faithful witness, the first-born of the dead” (Revelation 1:5), “first-born among many brothers [and sisters]” (Romans 8:29), conquering death in all its forms, in all of us in the human family. In Luke’s Vigil Gospel, heavenly messengers send the women forth: “Remember what [Jesus] said to you” (Luke 24:6). In John’s Gospel, the empty tomb likewise “sends forth” Mary Magdalene, Peter, and the Beloved Disciple, who believe though they do not fully understand. Finally, Luke’s evening “Emmaus” Gospel sends us forth, as “missionaries of mercy,” assuring us that we will encounter the Risen Lord, today and every day, in “the stranger” we meet along life’s journey, in “the Word that makes our hearts burn within us,” and “in the breaking of bread” (see Luke 24:32, 35). —Peter Scagnelli, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc.

ARCHDIOCESAN ANNUAL APPEAL 2016 A very grateful thanks to all our parishioners who contributed to the Archdiocesan Annual Appeal in 2015. Because of your generosity, we were able to reach our assessed amount last year. We have now begun to collect for 2016. There are brochures in the back of the church. Please take one and consider what you can contribute to help us cover the Annual Appeal for this year.

THE O.L.M.C WOMEN’S CLUB The OLMC Women's Club will gather in the Small Hall at 6:30 pm on Wednesday, April 6, for a dinner and fellowship. All women over 21 are invited . Proceeds are used to help with the liturgy of our church. Hope to see you there!

GOOD GRIEF MINISTRY The loss of every loved one creates many changes, challenges and pain. “Good Grief”, an ongoing support group, meets every Thursday at the Parish Center, from 6:00-7:30 p.m. We care. We share. Do come.

Saturday, March 26, 2016 Easter Vigil 8:00 PM Pro-populo Sunday, March 27, 2016 8:00 AM Pro-populo 10:00 AM Benjamin Navarro & Martha Arias † 12:00 PM (Español) Jose Nuñez & Arnulfo Chacon † 5:00 PM No Mass

Monday, March 28, 2016 8:15 AM Pro-populo

Tuesday, March 29, 2016 8:15 AM Paul Isaacs † (1st Anniversary)

Wednesday, March 30, 2016 8:15 AM Pro-populo

Thursday, March 31, 2016 8:15 AM Pro-populo

Friday, April 1, 2016 8:15 AM Olivia Dei Rossi † Saturday, April 2, 2016 8:15 AM Ledesma Family (intentions)

THIS WEEK AT MT. CARMEL Sunday, March 27: Children’s Liturgy Monday, March 28: Charismatic Committee Tuesday, March 29: Men’s Basketball Wednesday, March 30: Charismatic Prayer Thursday, March 31: Good Grief Friday, April 1: Spanish Choir Rehearsal

10:00 a.m.

Chapel

7:00 p.m.

Parish Center

8:30 p.m.

Large Hall

7:00 p.m.

Small Hall

7:00 p.m.

P. Center

7:00 p.m.

Parish Center

WE REMEMBER YOU, O RISEN LORD We remember you, O risen Lord, New Covenant at the feast of the cross. Your resurrecƟon dresses the table for the bread of heaven and the cup of salvaƟon. Blessed are you!

—From Come, Lord Jesus by Lucien Deiss, CSS , copyright © 1976, 1981, Lucien Deiss. Published by World Library Publications. p.163

SAINTS AN SPECIAL OBSERVANCE Monday:

Monday within the Octave of Easter

Tuesday:

Tuesday within the Octave of Easter

Wednesday: Wednesday within the Octave of Easter Thursday:

Thursday within the Octave of Easter

Friday:

Friday within the Octave of Easter; First Friday

Saturday:

Saturday within the Octave of Easter; First Saturday

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OUR LADY OF MT. CARMEL #919128 300 Fulton St. Redwood City, CA 94062 CONTACT PERSON Alba L. Canelo, Bulletin Editor: 650-366-3802 Fr. Ulysses D’Aquila, Pastor: 650-36-9583 EMAIL ADDRESS [email protected] SOFTWARE Microsoft ®Publisher 2007 Adobe®Acrobat®X Window7® PRINTER Toshiba e studio 3040c TRASMISSION TIME Thursday, March 17, 2016 SUNDAY OF PUBLICATION Easter Sunday, March 27, 2016 NUMBER OF PAGES SENT 1 through 6 SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS None