St.

Anthony Shrine
Tel. 617-542-6440 Website: http://www.StAnthonyShrine.org The Good Word Tel. 617-542-0502 Prayer Request Line Tel. 617-542-6826

100 Arch Street, Boston, MA 02110

& Ministry Center

Sunday, November 10 Saturday, November 16, 2013

NOVEMBER

WHATS HAPPENING THIS WEEK

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Prison Ministry, SCHC, 8:15 to 11:30 a.m.

20s/30s Second Sunday Social, Coffee Edition, after 10 & 11:15 a.m. Masses (See ad.) Healing Prayer Service, 1:30 p.m. Parents & Family of LGBT Support Group, 1:45 to 3:15 p.m., Assisi auditorium stage classroom (See ad for details.) Veterans Day Legal Holiday

Please take this bulletin home with you as well as the many brochures that advertise the programs and services of the Shrine. Thank you for being with us today. Franciscan friars and staff St. Anthony Shrine community

Welcome to the St. Anthony Shrine Community. All are welcome here. No one is excluded.

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REGULAR EVENTS
Monday Tuesday

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Shrine closes at 11:00 a.m. (See Legal Holiday schedule)

Blood pressure & Blood Sugar screening, Flu vaccine, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Wellness Center

The Truth will set you free, by Bill Sawyer, 12:15 to 1:15 p.m., 2nd fl. classroom (See ad for details)

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Faith Encounters the Ecological Crisis, Just Matters study module, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., 2nd fl. classroom

A.A. Step Meeting 5:45 p.m. Seniors Crafts Group 10:30 a.m. A.A. Open Meeting Noon Mens Cursillo Reunion 5:15 p.m. Wednesday Remembrance Day for Deceased (3rd Wed.) All Masses Womens Spiritual Refl. Group (2nd & 4th Wed) 12:30 p.m. Seniors Computer Lab 1:30 p.m. Grupo Hispano de Oracin 4:15 p.m. A.A. Open Meeting 5:45 p.m. Bread on the Common (2nd & 4th Wed.) 5:45 p.m. Anointing of the Sick Mass (2nd Wed.) TBA Thursday S.L.A.A. Meeting Noon Mens Spirituality Group (2nd & 4th Thurs.) 5:00 p.m. A.A. Big Book Meeting 5:45 p.m. Saturday Vietnamese Secular Franciscans (2nd Sat.) 9:30 a.m. Secular Franciscans (2nd Sat.) 10:50 a.m. Centering Prayer Group (1st & 3rd Sat.) Noon Sunday 20/30 Boston Young Adults Coffee (4th Sun.) 10:30 a.m. alt. Wine & Cheese Social (odd 4th Sun.) 4:30 p.m. Pieta Ministry Coffee (1st Sun.) 11:00 a.m. Healing Service (2nd Sun.) 1:00 p.m. Separated and Divorced Catholics 1:30 p.m. Hispanic Secular Franciscans (1st Sun.) 3:00 p.m.

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Bread on the Common, 5:45 to 7:30 p.m. (See ad for details.) No scheduled events.

LGBT Spirituality Group, 5:30 to 7:00 p.m., 2nd fl. classroom (See ad for details.)

Womens Spiritual Reflection Group, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Contact Nancy Nichols Kearns, 781-704-1010

Seniors Mass 10:00 a.m., Exercise 10:30 a.m., program 11:00 a.m., lunch Noon

Blood pressure & Blood Sugar screening, Flu vaccine, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Wellness Center

SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES

Sunday: Monday: Tuesday: Wednesday: Friday: Saturday:

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Cover art: 2007 Karides Lic. to St. George Publishing

Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Martin of Tours; Veterans Day St. Josaphat St. Frances Xavier Cabrini St. Albert the Great St. Margaret of Scotland; St. Gertrude; Blessed Virgin Mary

Sin Nombre, film & discussion, 1:45 to 3:30 p.m., Assisi auditorium stage classroom (See ad for details.) Saint Anthony Shrine The Church on Arch Street

Centering Prayer Group, Noon to 1:30 p.m.

READINGS FOR THE WEEK

Monday: Tuesday: Wednesday: Thursday: Friday: Saturday: Sunday:

Wis 1:1-7; Ps 139:1b-10; Lk 17:1-6 Wis 2:23 3:9; Ps 34:2-3, 16-19; Lk 17:7-10 Wis 6:1-11; Ps 82:3-4, 6-7; Lk 17:11-19 Wis 7:22b 8:1; Ps 119:89-91, 130, 135, 175; Lk 17:20-25 Wis 13:1-9; Ps 19:2-5ab; Lk 17:26-37 Wis 18:14-16; 19:6-9; Ps 105:2-3, 36-37, 42-43; Lk 18:1-8 Mal 3:19-20a; Ps 98:5-9; 2 Thes 3:7-12; Lk 21:5-19

Parents and Family of LGBT Support Group

Sundays, 1:45 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. November 10 & 24, 2013 Assisi auditorium stage classroom

For more information, please contact sas20s30s@stanthonyshrine.org.

20s/30s Boston Young Adults

Events This Week

We clearly recognize the importance of the roles played by the parent[s], family and friends of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. A designated support group has been established to assist those who love and care about their children, siblings, or friends of LGBT. Discussions and current DVDs are shown in the effort to deepen the understanding of LGBT persons while increasing their acceptance, trust and love. All parents, families, siblings (over 20 yrs age) and friends of LGBT persons are invited to participate.

Second Sunday Social

Save the date! We will be setting up the Crche (Nativity scene) in the 1st fl. church on Sunday, December 1 at 7:00 p.m. This is the Sunday after Thanksgiving, so if you are in town, we would love to have your help!
Please contact sas20s30s@stanthonyshrine.org for more details.

Coffee Edition Sunday, November 10 after the 10 & 11:15 a.m. Masses. (2nd fl. classroom)

Contact: Fr. Joe Quinn, OSF, 617-542-6440, ext. 239 or email LGBT@stanthonyshrine.org

Offered by LGBT MInistry of St. Anthony Shrine

Wednesday, November 13, 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. 2nd fl. classroom

LGBT Spirituality Group

Follow us on Twitter @sas20s30s The Truth will set you free

Tuesdays, Nov. 12, 19, 26 12:15 to 1:15 p.m., 2nd fl classroom Presenter: William (Bill) Sawyer, II Cost: Free will ($10/session suggested) Come to one or many sessions.

Contact: Fr. Joe Quinn, OSF, 617-542-6440, ext. 239 or email LGBT@stanthonyshrine.org

All Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgendered (LGBT) Catholics are invited to participate in our monthly spirituality group.

Offered by LGBT MInistry of St. Anthony Shrine

Contact: Dr. Jackie Stewart, St. Anthony Shrine, 617542-6440, ext. 143 or email SAS.Evang@gmail.com. Offered by Franciscan Adult School

Participants will learn how to come to true happiness by fully believing Jesus truths, and applying them to their everyday lives.

Save the Date Wednesday, November 13, 2013 Please mark Wednesday, November 13, 2013 as a National Call-In Day to Congress. On that day, the Feast Day of Saint Frances Cabrini, Patron Saint of Immigrants, the U.S.C.C.B.s (U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops) Justice for Immigrants (JFI) Campaign is asking Catholics to call their Congressional Representatives with this simple message: Support a path to citizenship and oppose the SAFE Act. (See Major Superiors of Men letter on p. 5.)
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Bread on the Common Street Ministry to Homeless Persons

All are invited to be part of a ministry to homeless persons on the streets and nearby the Shrine on the 2nd & 4th Wednesdays of each month. We meet in the auditorium of the Shrine at 5:45 p.m., prepare food packets, and then visit with homeless persons on the streets, offering food, socks, and presence, ending at 7:30 p.m.
Please call if you plan on coming. For more information, please contact Dr. Jackie Stewart at 617-542-6440, ext 143 or email SAS.Evang@gmail.com. Offered by Evangelization

2nd & 4th Wednesdays, November 13 & 27 (day before Thanksgiving). 5:45 to 7:30 p.m.

For more information, please contact sas20s30s@stanthonyshrine.org.

20s/30s Boston Young Adults

Upcoming Events

Founding Inspirations: A multi-Series Panel Discussion on the Grace that Defines a Religious Order

Charism Series Part 3

Tuesday, November 19, 2013, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.\ St. Anthony Shrine auditorium Open to all members of the Shrine community.

Affective Sexuality & Spirituality

Inconvenient Film Series

Contact: Dr. Jackie Stewart, St. Anthony Shrine, 617542-6440, ext. 143 or email SAS.Evang@gmail.com. Offered by the Franciscan Adult School

Seeking the promise of America, a beautiful young Honduran woman, Sayra, joins her father on an odyssey to cross the gauntlet of the Latin American countryside. Along the way, she crosses paths with a teenaged Mexican gang member, El Casper, who is maneuvering to outrun his violent past. Together they have to rely on faith, trust and street smarts if they are to survive their increasingly perilous journey towards the hope of new lives.

Sin Nombre Sat., November 16, 2013, 1:45 to 3:30 p.m., Assisi auditorium stage classroom Cost: $5.

Thursday, November 21, 2013 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. 2nd fl classroom Presenter: Fr. Gene Pistacchio, OFM Cost: $5. Preregistrations appreciated. Open to all members of the Shrine community.

Contact: Dr. Jackie Stewart, St. Anthony Shrine, 617542-6440, ext. 143 or email SAS.Evang@gmail.com. Offered by the Franciscan Adult School

An opportunity to understand the intricacy and oneness of these very important dimensions of the human person, this discussion will offer some concrete examples of how to achieve intimacy in a holistic, prayerful way without divorcing or separating either of them. These God given dimensions of personhood, affective sexuality and spirituality, impel us to reach greater levels of integration thereby increasing self-knowledge, discipline, overall happiness, fulfillment and deep inner peace.

Saturday, November 23 after the 4 and 5:30 p.m. Masses and Sunday, November 24 after the 10, 11:15 a.m., 12:30, 4 and 5:30 p.m. Masses. Shrine Auditorium 4

St. Anthony Shrines Ministry Expo

Budget Suggestion: Start your Pilgrimage Club, (If you start saving in November 2013, recommend saving $81/wk pp thru Dec. 2014). To get on our interest list, please contact Dr. Jackie Stewart, SAS.Evang@gmail.com or 617-542-6440, ext. 143. Offered by Franciscan Adult School Saint Anthony Shrine The Church on Arch Street

Not too early to Plan Ahead Join us on our 2015 Holy Land Pilgrimage! Leaders: Fr. Gene Pistacchio, OFM & Dr. Jackie Stewart (Dates & Costs TBA)

Conference of Major Superiors of Men

October 10, 2013 Dear Member of Congress, As the national conference serving the leaders of all the Catholic men's religious orders in the U.S., we write to express our concern about H.R. 2278, the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement (SAFE Act). We are deeply troubled by provisions in the proposed legislation that would: Expand the use of mandatory and indefinite immigration detention

Immigration

Create new crimes for being present in the United States without lawful immigration status and for aiding a migrant or refugee who lacks immigration status Encourage state and local law enforcement officials participation in immigration enforcement Decrease protections and immigration relief for certain migrant groups

Catholic brothers and priests began coming to these shores over 200 years ago as immigrants in many ways to serve immigrant populations. To this day we continue to minister to these aspiring citizens in our schools and hospitals, and in our churches and social service agencies. We welcome them to our communities and our homes. We see the devastating effects of the brokenness of the current immigration system every day. We share the pain of mothers and fathers separated from their children and those who risk their lives for love of their families. We find the SAFE Act objectionable on many levels. The bills single-minded focus on immigration enforcement will increase detentions and deportations and encourage racial profiling and unconstitutional detentions without fixing any of the real problems of our broken immigration system.

Sincerely, Very Rev. John Edmunds, ST President Conference of Major Superiors of Men www.cmsm.org
100 Arch Street Boston, Massachusetts 02110 617.542.6440

We promise you our prayers and hope that you will work with your colleagues to enact legislation that places greater emphasis on compassion, unity, and Gods love for all seeking rest and opportunity.

Thus, we urge you to oppose passage of the SAFE Act and any other legislation that would criminalize the compassion and hospitality that lie at the heart of our mission and the core of our national culture.

As men religious we take seriously the Gospel call to welcome the stranger and care for those most in need. We are committed to the precepts of Catholic Social Teaching that remind us that the dignity of the person is at the core of our moral vision of society; that how we organize our society affects human dignity directly; and that any system that is deliberately cruel or inhumane must be changed. Dignity is upheld when we treat each person as a gift, particularly as a gift from God out of love and for love. When we divide families, which are a key organ of love, ignore the gifts that immigrants are to our society, and become possessive about our land and resources, then we are not acting in accord with human dignity.

We write today because we are particularly concerned about provisions in the SAFE Act that would effectively criminalize the ministry of our members. We take seriously our religious call to provide for the spiritual and humanitarian needs of all persons regardless of immigration status. The provisions of the SAFE Act run directly counter to the gospel values of generosity, hospitality, welcome, and solidarity with the poor and marginalized. We cannot continence a law that would prohibit acts of kindness and mercy.

SAINT ANTHONY SHRINE & MINISTRY CENTER ~ All Are Welcome ~

Masses The Arch Street Band
SATURDAY AFTERNOON VIGIL MASSES ** Music

Second Floor Chapel 6:00 a.m. 7:30 a.m. 9:00 a.m. Following Masses ** Music 10:00 a.m. 11:15 a.m. 12:30 Noon 4:00 p.m. 5:30 p.m. Second Floor Chapel
LEGAL HOLIDAY MASSES

4:00 p.m. ** 5:30 p.m. **

Second Floor Chapel

First Floor Chapel

4:15 p.m.

SUNDAY MASSES

6:00 a.m. 7:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. 11:45 a.m. 12:30 p.m. 1:15 p.m. 5:15 p.m. Second WednesdayAnointing Mass: time to be announced Third WednesdayDay of Remembrance Tuesdays: St. Anthony Devotions Wednesdays: Spanish Mass - 5:15 p.m. Thursdays: St. Jude Devotions MISA EN ESPAOL Cada mircoles a las 5:15 de la tarde
SATURDAY MASSES

Celebrated in Second Floor Chapel

WEEKDAY MASSES

Celebrated in First Floor Chapel Weekdays: 6:30 to 8:00 a.m.; 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.; 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. Saturday: 6:30 to 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Seasonal Communal Penance Service: (to be announced) Sunday: 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Legal Holiday: 8:30 to 10:00 a.m. CONTACT US: Phone: 1-617-542-6440 Fax: 1-617-542-4225 Website: http://www.StAnthonyShrine.org Address: 100 Arch Street Downtown Crossing Boston, MA 02110

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION

8:00 a.m.

10:00 a.m.

Celebrated in Second Floor Chapel 8:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. 12:00 Noon Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament (First Floor Chapel) Weekdays at 1:45 p.m. Saturdays at 12:30 p.m. Sundays at 1:00 p.m. Benediction (First Floor Chapel) Weekdays: 5:00 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays: 3:30 p.m. Vespers Sundays: 3:15 p.m.
EXECUTIVE STAFF

Holy Rosary of Mary Sundays: 2:45 p.m. Chaplet of Divine Mercy Sundays: 3:00 p.m.

Fr. Thomas Conway, OFM Executive Director TBD, OFM Assistant Executive Director of Ministries

MINISTRIES OF SAINT ANTHONy SHRINE WORSHIP/yOUR SPIRITUAL HOME RECONCILIATION MUSIC LAzARUS PROGRAM WELLNESS CENTER SAINT ANTHONy BREAD FOR THE POOR BREAD ON THE COMMON FRANCISCAN SPIRITUAL COMPANIONSHIP MINISTRy THE KIDS PROGRAM SENIORS ON ARCH STREET MyCHAL JUDGE CENTER FOR RECOVERy FRANCISCAN FOOD CENTER EVANGELIzATION GOOD WORD: (617) 542-0502 HISPANIC MINISTRy FRANCISCAN ADULT SCHOOL PIETA MINISTRy 20S/30S BOSTON COME HOME PROGRAM PRISON MINISTRy LGBT MINISTRy GRIEF MINISTRy
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Spirituality of the Readings

Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time C Reading I: 2 Maccabees 7:1-2, 9-14 Responsorial Psalm: 17:1, 5-6, 8, 15 Reading II: 2 Thessalonians 2:16-3:5 Gospel: Luke 20:27-38 or 20:27, 34-38

Why are they alive? Because God keeps love safe. What? yes. Real love is like the rich earth that nurtures great trees. Roots dig deep down in the soil for the nourishment and moisture. Their green selves grow out of the earth, and notice something obvious: the earth does not grow out of them! Their life and our lives are rooted in the rich loam of love. Life grows out of love, not visa versa.

Love After Death

Death is hard to talk about. But life after death is even harder. Since both are in this weeks readings, we have to try it.

When we think about death, many images and experiences flood the mind. Often much suffering accompanies them.

But I have been with a fair number of people as they died, and each time the event has seemed miraculous. Someone I had known and spoken with, someone whose every movement came from a mysterious source of life within them, a burning bright as a candle in darkness, that someone has vanished. The body is the same one I knew before. The mouth is the same one that talked and laughed. But in the blink of my eye, the person is gone. Where did she go? Where did he go? But even that way of talking is inaccurate. The way we go is by means of walking, using our arms and legs, and thus changing locations. In death the going somewhere is accomplished by cessation of all motion whatsoever. Any going has to be at a much, much deeper level.

So the place dead persons go, leaving their bodies behind, is into the heart of love, into the arms of God who is love. Here is how the poet Hopkins put it: Hither then, last or first, To hero of Calvary, Christs feet Never ask if meaning it, wanting it, warned of itmen go.

It is difficult to say the last sentence correctly. Let me try again. Love is a force much deeper than life. When life ceases, love stays. It becomes the home, the embracing arms that enfold us. Love is the substance, life is the outgrowth.

Christs feet are where you and I will be, honoring the perfect fullness of love he achieved. Oh yes, we have to release our tight grip on the treasures we hoard, things we choose instead of love.

And we have only to glance at the crucifixion to see that Jesus too chose to die this way. He knew his Abba so well that he maintained hope even when everything screamed against it. God is God of life, the Gospel says; to him all are alive, even the dead.
100 Arch Street Boston, Massachusetts 02110 617.542.6440

Hope, not surety.

Only the thing called hope can tell us where they go. One of the brothers in the First Reading says it this way: It is my choice to die at the hands of men with the hope God gives of being raised up by him.

If we have a hard time meaning it and wanting it during our lives, even so we are still folded into the luxuriant soil of Gods love. Sometimes we refuse it, of course, and then our roots dry out in the sun. yet Love forgives and invites us and helps us back. It is hard to talk about, but worth it.

____________ The poem fragment comes from Gerard Manley Hopkins poem, The Wreck of the Deutschland, stanza 8. Men in that day meant all persons.

Art: Resurrection of the Dead by Victor Mattez, 1809-1897

you are invited to write a note to the author of this reflection: Fr. John Foley, S. J. (johnbfoley@yahoo.com)

Fr. John Foley, S. J. Copyright 2010, The Center for Liturgy at Saint Louis University. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Inconvenient Film Series

more Upcoming Events

Candlelight Service of Remembrance

November 30, 2013. 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Second Floor Church This is a service for all who are mourning the loss of a family member or friend as we enter into the Christmas season.

Joseph (Jules Sitruk), an 18-year-old musician preparing to join the Israeli army for his mandatory military service, lives at home in a comfortable suburb of Tel Aviv with his parents, France-born physician Orith (Emmanuelle Devos) and Israelborn army commander Alon Silbers (Pascal Elb). A blood test for Josephs military service reveals that he is not their biological son; during the Gulf War Joseph was evacuated from a clinic along with another baby; both were given back to the wrong families. While the Palestinian Joseph went to Tel Aviv with the Silbers, their actual Jewish son, Yacine (Medhi Dehbi) was brought to the West Bank by the Arab couple, Said (Khalifa Natour) and Leila (Areen Omari). The revelation turns the lives of the two families upside-down, forcing them to reassess their respective identities, values and beliefs.
Contact: Dr. Jackie Stewart, St. Anthony Shrine, 617542-6440, ext. 143 or email SAS.Evang@gmail.com. Offered by the Franciscan Adult School

The moving and provocative tale filmed in Israel and the West Bank - of two young men one Israeli, the other Palestinian, who discover they were accidentally switched at birth, and the complex repercussions on themselves and their respective families.

The Other Son, Sat., Nov. 30, 2013, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., Assisi auditorium stage classroom Cost: $5.

This night we will give birth to new beginnings. As in the days of old, we come to the manger of life, as did the infant Jesus. And the memory of your loved one most definitely brings life to all of us this evening.

Holidays are family times and, when part of the family has been taken away in death, the holidays can only emphasize the profound void even more so. Death is the greatest equalizer in all humanity. It shows no partiality. And so as a community of believers we gather on holy ground this evening, we come to share in that pain and bless it with love. We look at those who have gathered and it is quite obvious to see that there is an abundance of love to go around. We invite you to join us to celebrate the very love that drew us here tonight.

Lesbians, Gays, Bi-sexual & Transgendered (LGBT) Catholics, Families & Friends LGBT Advent Day of Reflection Welcome Back to the Manger

Contact Fr. Joe Quinn, OFM, 617-542-6440, ext. 239. Offered by Evangelization

Being what Gay and Lesbian Christians know about Advent and what they have to teach the Church.
Saturday, December 7, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Friars Chapel - 5th fl. Registrations requested by Sunday, Dec. 1. Cost: $30 (includes lunch)

Contact: Fr. Joe Quinn, OSF, 617-542-6440, ext. 239 or email LGBT@stanthonyshrine.org

Do you know someone who might be spending Thanksgiving alone this year? Or perhaps a family experiencing economic distress? Consider inviting them to share your holiday table and fellowship.

Contact: Dr. Jackie Stewart, St. Anthony Shrine, 617542-6440, ext. 143 or email SAS.Evang@gmail.com.

Monday, December 9, 2013 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. 4th floor Francis & Clare rooms Cost: $15 minimum donation (includes supper)

Advent Twilight Retreat

Offered by LGBT MInistry of St. Anthony Shrine

Preregistration required by Mon., Dec. 2.