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July 28, 2024

ST ANTONINUS CATHOLIC CHURCH

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337 S. ORANGE ST, NEWARK NJ 07103

SaintAntoninusChurch@gmail.com ~ 973-623-0258

www.saintantoninuschurch.org

This Sunday, July 28, 2024

17^th Sunday in Ordinary Time

• 8 am Mass- in the Rectory Chapel
• 10 am Mass- in Lower Church

Holy Hour with Confessions at 9am

Note: During the hot months in the summer, our 10am Mass will be in the a Lower Church. Entrance is on S. Orange Ave.

This Sunday, our 8am Mass will be also be held in the Lower Church while the Rectory Chapel is under renovation.

17^th Sunday in Ordinary Time

July 28, 2024

8 am- Holy Mass in the Rectory Chapel

10 am- Holy Mass in Church Hall

9 am- Holy Hour

Confessions available

For those who truly cannot come to Mass on Sunday, livestream of the 10am Mass is available. Livestream does not fulfill one’s obligation, but when a person is truly unable to come to Mass, it does provide spiritual benefits.

To watch the 10am livestream on our YouTube Channel: go to https://www.youtube.com/c/SaintAntoninusChurch

Or go directly to the links below:

This Sunday's Mass Readings.

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This week's Bulletin.

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This month's St. Antoninews

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Reminder:

√ Next Friday, Aug. 2 - and every first Friday of the month:

First Friday monthly Mass in honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus 

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12 Noon in the rectory chapel. (Enter thru front door on S. Orange Ave)

•    2:00- 5:00pm: After a quick simple lunch, we will proceed to the Alliance of Two Hearts-Communion of Reparation with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.

Confessions will be available.

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√ Next Saturday, Aug. 3- and every first Saturday of the month:

First Saturday Charismatic Healing Mass

•  2pm- Holy Hour: First Saturday Devotion to the Immaculate Heart & Chaplet of Divine Mercy
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•  3pm- Holy Mass & healing service

Fr Joseph and the healing team will be praying over everyone who needs healing in Jesus. We will be using the oil of St Charbel of Lebanon, and asking his special intercession.

Come for our Lord's extravagant healing & consolation

The National Eucharistic Congress Is Over — Now What?

We praise and thank the Lord for the recently concluded National Eucharistic Congress in Indiana, with 60,000 pilgrims coming together to welcome and worship Jesus in the Eucharist. 

The 5 day event was not man-made. All of heaven hosted it and everyone was there to receive. As one of the speakers, Msgr. James Shea put it: “This is not for God; it is from God.”

There were seven of us in the parish who attended the Eucharistic Congress with Fr. Joseph, 6 traveling by car and 3 by plane.

The talks and singing were anointed and soul-piercing . The

highlight of each day were the Mass, the evening Benediction with praise &

worship, and a most joyous Eucharistic street procession on Saturday. 

So now we have returned home. What next”

The National Eucharistic Congress Is Over — Now What?

National Catholic Register

The pilgrims have returned home, the stage in Lucas Oil Stadium has been dismantled, and the Blessed Sacrament has been reposed in the tabernacle.

Now what?

It’s a fair question. And it’s likely on the minds of many following the conclusion of the 10th National Eucharistic Congress last week and over the weekend.

After all, the congress, which follo.

After all, the congress, which followed a 6,000-mile-long, cross-country National Eucharistic Pilgrimage and drew more than 50,000 Catholics to Indianapolis, was the apex of the National Eucharistic Revival that has been renewing the Eucharistic belief and devotion of Catholics across the country for the past two years.

As those who attended could tell you, the congress was a high point in the spiritual lives of so many — a truly life-changing event. 

But after such a colossally high mountaintop experience, it’s fair to ask what we all are supposed to do now — or if a letdown is about to occur.

Not to worry. Because even though the congress has concluded, the National Eucharistic Revival is far from over. 

In fact, the question of what comes next can be answered with a single word: mission.

Sharing the love we have received from our Eucharistic Lord, really and truly present in the Blessed Sacrament, will be the focus of the Revival’s concluding “Year of Mission.” The goal of this year will be to send “on-fire Catholics out to share Christ’s love ‘for the life of the world,’” through service, evangelization and catechesis.

This connection between the Eucharist and mission isn’t something the Revival’s organizers cooked up. Instead, it’s at the heart of the very logic of the Eucharist. As St. Augustine teaches us, “If we receive the Eucharist worthily, we become what we receive” — namely, self-giving love that longs to pour itself out, just as Christ did on the cross.

In fact, so central is this connection that Pope Benedict XVI taught in Deus Caritas Estthat “a Eucharist which does not pass over into the concrete practice of love is intrinsically fragmented.” This love, he writes, can be commanded precisely because it has first been given.

The connection between receiving the Lord’s love and going out on mission is also at the heart of Pope Francis’ call for each member of the faithful to become “missionary disciples.” Issued in Evangelii Gaudium, the spiritual blueprint of his papacy, Francis describes an unbreakable, reinforcing dynamism between drawing close to Jesus and sharing his love with others. Called to be “Spirit-filled evangelizers,” this “joy of evangelizing always arises from grateful remembrance” — a remembrance that occurs most powerfully in the Eucharist, the memorial of Our Lord’s sacrifice for us.

Our pastors teach about the connection between the Eucharist and mission because it is how the first disciples of Christ experienced it. To see this, we can look to the Gospel scene that served as the inspiration for the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage: the Road to Emmaus.

On that journey, the Risen Lord walks with two disciples, explaining the Scriptures and sharing his presence, their hearts “burning within” them, before sitting down for a meal. And what did his disciples do after Jesus revealed his identity to them and vanished from their midst? “They set out at once and returned to Jerusalem,” recounting what had taken place and how Jesus “was made known to them in the breaking of the bread.”

Our local Catholic Church has walked with Christ along the pilgrimage routes and has sat down to spend time in his presence at the Congress. And now, we too are called to return to our own Jerusalems and share his Eucharistic love through word and deed.

Of course, the National Eucharistic Revival has been demonstrating this connection between Eucharistic discipleship and mission since it started in 2022. Pilgrimage stops included service to the poor and visits to the imprisoned and infirm, while the Revival inspired everything from catechetical resources on the Eucharistic basis of Catholic social teaching to evangelizing musicals.

But now we’re invited to be even more intentional: to engage in those “concrete practices of love” that Benedict XVI spoke of and to ask the question, “How will we live out this call to Eucharistic mission?” 



The opportunities are boundless. Perhaps we will be drawn to step out in faith and share what Jesus has done in our own lives with a non-Catholic friend. Or perhaps we will be motivated by the Lord’s love to serve the poor and the marginalized in a new way. Or maybe we will simply rededicate ourselves to loving our families more selflessly and completely. 

The most important thing is to do something — to let the love received through the Eucharist have a place to go.

But, of course, just as Eucharistic devotion blossoms into mission, so too is our ability to share Christ’s love dependent on constantly abiding in him, especially in the Eucharist. The Revival has not been a one-and-done moment. It is a call to revitalize our Eucharistic faith and live it out each and every day: to participate in Mass more fully and faithfully, to prioritize spending time with the Lord in Eucharistic adoration, and to confess Christ’s Real Presence in the Eucharist with more clarity and conviction.

As the Second Vatican Council taught, the Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life. And the National Eucharistic Revival has been — and will continue to be — an invitation to place this great sacrament at the center of our lives, so that we can more fully receive Christ’s love and more completely share it with others. All that’s left for us to do is respond.

Below: featuring some of speakers of the National Eucharistic Congress (VIDEO section )

CALLING ALL HIGH SCHOOL TEENS!

You are invited to come to YOUTH DAY 2023 on Saturday, August 3 from 10am to 7pm in Marycrest, Monroe NY.

The cost $50 per participant with possible scholarship. This includes 2 meals, snacks and a T-shirt. This is a place where you can meet other young people and share faith and friendship together. There will be Scripture lessons, Eucharistic Adoration, Mass and other prayers. At the end of the day, you will be commissioned to go out to the world as missionary disciples.

Email saintantoninuschurch@gmail.com to register.

Family Harvest Offering is open to all families and individuals.

Our Thanksgiving Harvest is not a one day event.

In fact, this begins with the Family Harvest Offering during the 10am Mass.

All Sundays leading to our big event on October 6 are open for your Family Harvest Offering.

This is the time when a family or individual comes before the altar of God to thank the Lord for all His bountiful gifts and provisons. And the blessings do not end there.

This is a great opportunity for evangelization for you to invite your family, friends and office colleagues to your family offering .

CONTACT

 Dr. Christina Ikwuegbu @ 908-436-7042

Dr. Adaora Madubuko @ 973-609-6884

Sr Mary Genevieve Okoro, DMMM @ 862-215-2198

More info: www.saintantoninuschurch.org  

Thank you for your generosity in supporting the mission and the maintenance of our parish!

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NATIONAL EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS

Cardinal Luis Tagle's homily at the Closing Mass of the 2024 National Eucharistic Congress

Fr. Mike Schmitz's full speech at the National Eucharistic Congress

Sister Josephine Garrett's Full Speech at the National Eucharistic Congress

Mother Adela Galindo's Full Speech at the National Eucharistic Congress

Mother Adela Galindo's Full Speech at the National Eucharistic Congress