St.

Anthony Shrine
& Ministry Center
100 Arch Street, Boston, MA 02110
Tel. 617-542-6440 Website: http://www.StAnthonyShrine.org
The Good Word Tel. 617-542-0502 Prayer Request Line Tel. 617-533-4100
Sunday, August 3 Saturday, August 9, 2014
A U G U S T
02 Saturday
Emmaus Retreat, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., 5th fl. friary
Centering Prayer Group, Noon to 1:30 p.m.,
4th fl. Francis room
03 Sunday
Prison Ministry, SCHC, 8:15 to 11:30 a.m.,
womens services 12:55 to 2:30 p.m.
Emmaus monthly Mass & meeting, 10 a.m.
(See ad for details.)
Damietta Project core team planning meeting,
1:30 to 3:30 p.m., 4th. fl. Francis room
(See ad for details.)
20s/30s picnic with the Paulists, 2:00 p.m.,
Boston Common (See ad for details.)
04 Monday
No scheduled events.
05 Tuesday
Just Matters Group planning meeting, 5:30 to
7:00 p.m., 2nd. fl. classroom (See ad for
details.)
Bereavement Support Group, 5:30 to 7:00 p.m.,
4th fl. Clare room, Enrollment closed.
06 Wednesday
Fellowship & Fiesta, potluck supper, 5:30 to 7:30
p.m., 4th fl. Clare room. Pre-reg required by
Mon., August 4. Contact Dr. Jackie Stewart,
617-542-6440, ext. 143.
07 Thursday
No scheduled events.
Welcome to the St. Anthony Shrine
Community. All are welcome here.
No one is excluded.
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
WHATS HAPPENING THIS WEEK
REGULAR EVENTS
Monday A.A. 12 Step Meeting 5:45 p.m.
Tuesday 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 Centering Prayer Group (1st & 3rd Sat.) Noon
Vietnamese Secular Franciscans (2nd Sat.) 1:00 p.m.
Secular Franciscans (2nd Sat.) 1:00 p.m.
Sunday 20/30 Boston Young Adults Coffee (4th Sun.) 11:00 a.m.
alt. Wine & Cheese Social (odd 4th Sun.) 5:00 p.m.
Emmaus Ministry Prayer/Discussion (1st Sun.) 11:00 a.m.
Healing Service (2nd Sun.) 1:30 p.m.
Separated and Divorced Catholics 1:30 p.m.
Hispanic Secular Franciscans (1st Sun.) 3:00 p.m.
READINGS FOR THE WEEK
Monday: Jer 28:1-17; Ps 119:29, 43, 79, 80, 95,
102; Mt 14:22-36
Tuesday: Jer 30:1-2, 12-15, 18-22; Ps 102:16-21,
29, 22-23; Mt 14:22-36 or Mt 15:1-2, 10-
14
Wednesday: Dn 7:9-10, 13-14; Ps 97:1-2, 5-6, 9;
2 Pt 1:16-19; Mt 17:1-9
Thursday: Jer 31:31-34; Ps 51:12-15, 18-19;
Mt 16:13-23
Friday: Na 2:1, 3; 3:1-3, 6-7; Dt 32:35cd-36ab,
39abcd, 41; Mt 16:24-28
Saturday: Hb 1:12 2:4; Ps 9:8-13; Mt 17:14-20
Sunday: 1 Kgs 19:9a, 11-13a; Ps 85:9-14;
Rom 9:1-5; Mt 14:22-33
Pray for Peace in the Middle East!
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Cover Art: (Gospel) ..Five loaves and two fishes is all
we have here. Jesus said, Bring them here to me,...
Matt. 14:17-18a
Loaves & Fishes olive wood carving by artisans at
Josephs in Bethlehem, Holy Land against a backdrop
of Druse fabric. photo 2014, Dr. Jacqueline Stewart
Events This Week
SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES
Sunday: Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Monday: St. John Vianney
Tuesday: Dedication of the Basilica of St. Mary
Major
Wednesday: The Transfiguration of the Lord;
Hiroshima Memorial Day
Thursday: St. Sixtus II and Companions;
St. Cajetan
Friday: St. Dominic
Saturday: St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross;
Blessed Virgin Mary;
Nagasaki Memorial Day
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Farewell Reception
Going-Away Reception for Fr. Frank
McHugh and Br. Jim McInthosh
Sunday, August 3rd after the 12:30 p.m. Mass in
the Auditorium.
20s/30s Boston Young Adults
For more information, please contact
sas20s30s@stanthonyshrine.org.
This event is for 20s and 30s only.
Picnic with the Paulists
Sunday, August 3, 2014. 2 p.m. Boston Common.
Please join us on Boston Common for food and a
little friendly competition (kickball anyone?) with
the great group of young adults from the
PaulistCenter on Park St. Some food will be
provided, but participants are encouraged to bring
something to share as well. We will also celebrate
an outdoor Mass together. Details available on our
website.
The Damietta Project
Catholics & Muslims
working together for the
Common Good
Core team planning meeting
Sunday, August 3, 2014
1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
St. Anthony Shrine Francis room
Information will appear in upcoming Bulletins about
community-wide events and our work-in-
progress on projects in food sustainability and
food waste management (our partnership with
Panera Cares has expanded to procure bread for
the Franciscan Food Center).
St. Anthony Shrine Just Matters Group
Peace & Social Justice
& Peace Islands Institute/Turkish Cultural Center
Serving the Spiritual Needs
of Grieving Parents
(formerly The Pieta Ministry)
Monthly Meetings
Join us in a safe place for peace, comfort, and
healing at least for a time.
Morning Prayer/Discussion Group
First Sunday of each month
Next Meeting: August 3, 2014
Gospel of the Day/Coffee Social
Last Sunday of each month
beginning 9/28/14
For all monthly meetings:
10 a.m. Mass: Reserved seating in left center, back
two pews (optional)
10:45 a.m.: Meet in First Floor Wellness Center for
meeting access.
Also available
Nov 7-9, 2014 Weekend Spiritual Retreat. For more
information, call (800) 919-9332 or (617) 542-8057.
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The Canticle
Volume 33 No. 8 August 2014
a monthly publication of St. Anthony Shrine
conceived by means of the Holy Spirit. Now with
her attending, another birth would take place. The
upper room would serve as the womb. The power of
the Holy Spirit would now give birth to the Church.
Those gathered would be blown out of their resting
place into the streets. They would begin to proclaim
the message Jesus had given them. The Spirit not
only gave birth to them but remained with them as
they preached throughout the Roman Empire. They
had been prepared for this ministry. Jesus had
assured them not to worry about what they were to
say, You yourselves will not be the speakers, the
Spirit of your Father will be speaking in you
(Matthew 10, 20). The Spirit would not come and go
but would remain with them. They would continue
their growth as a spirit tree, whose roots would be in
the earth of their humanity and whose leaves would
be nurtured by that abiding Spirit.
One hundred years had passed since the
death of Anthony of Padua. A series of stories were
published recalling the good old days when the
Franciscan Order had passed through its youth. In
the midst of these renditions of the events of St.
Francis and his followers, a few episodes appear
portraying some moments in the life of St. Anthony.
In one he preaches to leaders of the Church. There
the storyteller refers to him as The Vessel of the
Spirit. The title seems appropriate from a few
points of view. It implies first of all that Anthony
moved beyond a single moment of inspiration. He
had become someone in whose life the Holy Spirit
rested, freely contained. A vessel remains open but
contains what we pour inside. It does not run out but
fills up. The notion suggests Anthony as someone
filled with the Holy Spirit. The story goes on to show
how those Church leaders who were of various
countries heard him speaking in their own language.
The narrative makes reference to the Pentecostal
event where the Apostles preached in the street
where people from various nations all understood
what they were saying. The writer of The Little
Flowers of St. Francis attempts to show the reader how
the Holy Spirit clung to Anthony, as it once clung to
the Apostles.
Secondly, the image of the vessel and its
significance can easily be missed today. During the
early years of the 13th century in which Anthony
lived, the legend of the Holy Grail began the story
of King Arthur and his knights of the round table.
Those knights were sent out to seek the Holy Grail,
thought to be somewhere in England. As the legend
Franciscana
Anthony of Padua: Vessel of the Spirit
Little of the program has remained in my
memory. The title alone has stayed, the rest is vague.
It was a television sports documentary. The show
was entitled, Try and Catch the Wind. It featured
the talents required of wide receivers in football.
Those men whose major task involves catching a
football thrown to them while the opposing team
makes sure that does not happen. The title
attempted to demonstrate the difficulty of their role.
Receiving a thrown football during competition
might be compared to trying to catch the wind.
Catching the wind seems like such an
impossible task. The wind blows seemingly
wherever it wishes. A picture I once saw of a
Buddhist monastery featured a tree described as a
spirit catcher. It stood with pieces of paper
attached to the branches. Its job was to catch the
spirit as it passed, much like the wind as it passes.
The spirit, like the wind, blows wherever it wishes. It
forms a force some receive but fewer retain. The
notion of inspiration implies something in-spirited
but not for any length of time. We speak of moments
of inspiration.
The feast of Pentecost expresses most
dramatically the Christian moment when the Holy
Spirit passed through that upper room which had
seen the Last Supper, the appearances of the risen
Lord, and now the rush of the Spirit. Those there
received what sounded like wind and appeared like
tongues of fire. But what they received remained
with them. It clung to them. It did not pass through
with only a moment of awareness. They caught the
wind. Or the wind caught them.
Of significance in that Pentecostal moment
was the presence of Mary, the Mother of Jesus. She
alone had previously encountered the Holy Spirit as
a force that not only clung to her, it formed divinity
within her. She gave birth to the Savior. She
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describes, only the perfect knight could be worthy of
such a discovery. The Holy Grail was thought to be
the chalice Jesus used at the Last Supper. The legend
spoke of it traveling from the upper room in
Jerusalem to the shores of Great Britain. It was the
treasure hard to attain. It became a mystical quest.
Knights sought to purify themselves to make
themselves worthy of such a prize.
To become a vessel of the Spirit hints at a
Grail context. Within that vessel used at the Last
Supper the blood of Christ had rested. The Anthony
story now describes him possessing within himself a
vessel containing the Holy Spirit. Like the chalice of
the Last Supper, St. Anthony is being portrayed as
another container for the Divine. This inside
container hints at why people became so moved by
his preaching. Why they would flock to him in
towns and villages compelled to shut down when he
came to preach. The quality of his life revealed him
to be a receptacle of the Holy Spirit. What he said did
not come from him alone. The Spirit was speaking
through him. His own spirituality and Gods grace
had created this vessel which then served as a resting
place for that Force which once had clung to and
moved those first followers of Jesus. The way we
know we remain in him and he in us is that he has
given us of his Spirit (1 John 4, 13).
Response
Saint Anthony was without doubt a vessel of
the Holy Spirit. But so are we, as the scripture
quoted at the end of Fr. Emerics presentation
reminds us. Anthony was aware of the Spirit and of
its power in him. Are we?
We are all empowered to live as the saints we
were meant to be. Our sainthood comes from the gift
of the Spirit in all of us through the sacraments. It is
for us, however, to bring the gift to fruition, and thus
is the great tragedy of Christian history: so few of us
have realized and energized this gift. The influence
of Christ in our history is great, but it could have
been much greater. We are reminded again of
Gandhi, as quoted in an earlier piece: I never met a
Christian that reminded me of Christ.
But while the past influences the present and
often more than is healthy, it does not enslave us who
live today. We are free to realize the power of the
Spirit in us and by prayer and study and practical
example to bring it to fruition. We can make a
difference. Figures like Anthony are rendered
useless, if what they pour forth into us is buried like
the single talent in the parable (Mt 25:25). We can
become artists in the presentation of the great work
that is the Gospel. But we must first digest the
dialogue that is our conversation as conscious
believers in the Word of God.
We are the Church, the wonderful organic
instrument of universal reunion with the Christ who
willed us to be made real through the mutual love of
our parents. On the human level as we are loved so
will we love. To live divinely we must be aware of
Gods love, accept it, and share it with all we meet,
without regarding their attitudes and opinions, yet
seeing in all the same potential for expressing the
Spirit once we have been given the opportunity to
cooperate with divine grace.
Christians should be spirited: full of life,
sensitive, easily empathetic, wonderfully responsive,
outrageously humorous, marvelously cooperative,
instinctively aware of the truth of situations. All of
us have some of these traits, all too often, however, at
a pedestrian level. Why are we so resistant to
inspiration with the Spirit spiriting in all directions?
Why do we balk at entering fully into prayer, content
to say our prayers, afraid to spill our guts to the one
person who is so respectful of the guts we spill? We
must rid ourselves of that attitude, so indicative of
our fallen nature, that believes God to be indifferent
to our needs unless we can win him over, get him to
go along! Why do we not embrace the self that is
most real, the self created by a God who defines
himself as ours? Surely insight into our deepest
sense of self will reveal that vessel which holds the
Spirit waiting to be shared, ready to be electrified,
eager to be released. There is a flaming tongue in our
makeup that cries out to be expressive. I have come
to bring fire on the earth, Jesus says (Lk 12:49). We
are to be the fire bringers, we vessels of the Spirit.
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WEEKDAY MASSES
Celebrated in Second Floor Chapel
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
SATURDAY MASSES
Celebrated in Second Floor Chapel
8:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. 12:00 Noon
SATURDAY AFTERNOON
VIGIL MASSES
Second Floor First Floor
Chapel Chapel
4:00 p.m. ** 4:15 p.m.
5:30 p.m. **
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION
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.
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.
Benediction
(First Floor Chapel)
Weekdays: 5:00 p.m.
Saturdays and Sundays: 3:30 p.m.
Holy Rosary of Mary Sundays: 2:45 p.m.
Chaplet of Divine Mercy Sundays: 3:00 p.m.
Vespers Sundays: 3:15 p.m.
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.
Tuesdays: St. Anthony Devotions
Wednesdays: Spanish Mass - 5:15 p.m.
Thursdays: St. Jude Devotions
SUNDAY MASSES
Second Floor Chapel
** Music Masses
The Arch Street Band
MISA EN ESPAOL
Cada mircoles a las 5:15 de la tarde
8:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m.
LEGAL HOLIDAY MASSES
Second Floor Chapel
MISA EN ESPAOL - PRIMER PISO
Cada domingo a las 11:45 de la maana
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18th Sunday of Ordinary Time A
Reading I: Isaiah 55:1-3
Responsorial Psalm 145:8-9, 15-16, 17-18
Reading II: Romans 8:35, 37-39
Gospel: Matthew 14:13-21
Come to the Water
I love the First Reading. I suppose this is obvious
from the fact that I wrote the hymn, Come to the
Water, which is based on it.
That was a long time ago (c 1971), but I remember
it clearly. The St. Louis Jesuits were only just
forming and we took a summer to write together
out in Berkeley, CA. We always composed music
individually and then presented it to one another
for critique. For my part I wrote two hymns, and
when it was time I played them for the others. I
remember the exact spot where I stood.
You probably think one of them was Come to the
Water, but it wasnt. I dont even remember the
names of those two pieces. The unanimous
reaction of my brothers in Christ was, Yuck!
These just dont work! What were you
thinking? These tender comments
encouraged me to file the errant pieces in
the round file and try again.
But I had learned something. I could not
just dash off music. I had to believe in
it and believe in what it was saying.
So I searched the scriptures and prayed.
The result? A setting of the following First Reading
for this Sunday.
All you who are thirsty,
come to the water!
You who have no money,
come, receive grain and eat;
Come, without paying and without cost,
drink wine and milk!
Why spend your money for what is not
bread;
your wages for what fails to satisfy?
Heed me, and you shall eat well,
you shall delight in rich fare.
Spirituality of the Readings
We composers and authors do not actually know
what happens when inspiration hits. I only know
that I began writing immediately, and that
something inside was guiding me. Come to the
Water was born. I continue to believe in it and
stand behind what it says. Both the song and the
scripture passage express a solution to the needs
and aches in our bodies and souls.
Listen with an understanding heart.
The love we received when we were children was
true, in spite of whatever wounds and reversals
any of us received then or afterwards. The inside
chambers of our self are truly and thoroughly
loved by the giving God.
Jesus shows this to us in the Gospel. He was
himself aching. He had been told about the death
of his dear teacher and friend, John the Baptist. He
wanted to get away from people, to let himself feel
the loss.
But look what happened. Crowds tracked his boat
and figured out where he was headed. They ran
around the lake and waited as he pulled up to
shore. Gone was his chance to mourn, at least for
the moment. Maybe he should have told
them to go away and come back later.
But scripture says, his heart was moved
with pity for them, and he cured their
sick. Even more, he gave them food, a
tiny bit of food that multiplied so that
there was enough. If you look at it, he
was doing exactly what the First Reading
and Come to the Water are talking
about.
His pity for them resulted in his giving them the
rich fare from the First Reading. Never mind that
he was hungry and surely thirsty. His mind was on
letting the people, who had no money, come and
receive grain and eat.
He is our model and our teacher.
Fr. John Foley, S. J.
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Crowds tracked his
boat and figured out
where he was
headed. They ran
around the lake and
waited as he pulled
up to shore.
20s/30s Boston Young Adults
For more information, please contact
sas20s30s@stanthonyshrine.org.
This event is for 20s and 30s only.
Annual Weekend Retreat
September 19 21, 2014
Whats Wrong with Being Naked?
The Truth Behind Forgiveness and
Reconciliation in the Church
Retreat Leader: Fr. Jim Sabak, OFM
Join us for a weekend of enlightenment and
entertainment. Reservations required!
$140 per person, includes:
Two nights accommodations at Glastonbury
Abbey in Hingham, MA
All meals (dinner on Friday; breakfast, lunch and
dinner on Saturday; breakfast and lunch on Sunday)
Theme-based presentations
Facilitated group discussions
Free time for personal reflection
Mass
A retreat journal & t-shirt
Fun!!
Space is limited, so register soon!
Questions/Comments or to reserve your spot,
contact us: sas20s30s@stanthonyshrine.org
A $50 deposit is required to confirm your
registration for the retreat. This deposit will be
applied to the full cost of the retreat, which is $140
per person. You can submit your payments by
cash, check (made out to St. Anthony Shrine with a
note: 20s/30s retreat) or by credit card online.
Final payment is due by Monday, September 15.
Commentary
I have noticed lately that I am increasingly upset by anti-
Semitism.
As an adolescent I was stunned by the concentration camp
revelations and felt that the Nazi preoccupation with Jews
was particularly bizarre.
My more recent exasperation results from my increasing
grasp of the history of Christianity.
Christians have treated Jewish people as faithless infidels
and this is my pointwhile all the time practicing a form of
Judaism themselves. Christianity is based on the
experience of Hebrew nomads. Greek philosophers also
influenced the early Christians but the heart of the religion
we practice today is Hebraic: belief in one God, praying to
that God, expecting that God to listen to our prayers and
answer them.
That God is interested in human beings is a concept as
radical now as when Jewish people first began to act on it.
My annoyance is not with people who dont believe in God
(our societys attitude toward religion borders on gross
ignorance and many sincere people are caught up in it) but
with those who do and have no idea where that belief
comes from.
I cannot figure out how a movement has lasted 2000 years
without examining its origins, not only acting in ignorance
hut actively persecuting a religion that shares its most
intimate practices.
Do you understand now my exasperation? Id be happy if
you felt a little of it yourself.
Fr. Howard OShea, OFM
Are you interested in matters of
Peace and Justice?
You are invited to join St. Anthony
Shrines Just Matters Group
We meet monthly to plan and provide facilitation for
Peace and Social Justice advocacy, training, and
related events. We coordinate with the Holy Name
Province Justice, Peace & Integrity of Creation
directorate, Interfaith Groups, and other partners.
Next meeting: Tuesday, August 5, 2014,
5:30 to 7:00 p.m., 2nd fl. classroom
Main topics: Planning Just Matters study module
Just Peacemaking Initiative: The Challenge and
Promise of Nonviolence for Our Timesessions
to begin in Fall 2014 and new initiatives from JPIC.
If you are interested in attending an upcoming meeting,
please contact: Dr. Jackie Stewart at 617-542-6440,
ext. 143 or email SAS.Evang@gmail.com.
Offered by Evangelization
Just Matters Peace & Social Justice
Holy Land Pilgrimage
May 19-29, 2015
Leaders:
Fr. Gene Pistacchio, OFM,
Dr. Jackie Stewart, & licensed
local guide & biblical scholar
Anton Farah. Our tour agent is Carmel Tours.
Join us next year in a land we love and call holy.
Brochure with costs and itinerary now available.
If you have any interest, would like more details,
please contact Dr. Jackie Stewart at 617-542-
6440, ext. 143 or email SAS.Evang@gmail.com.
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