The Friday Flocknote
God of love we place in your loving arms the thousands of innocent lives that were lost on that unforgettable morning of September 11, 2001. We also remember the courage of the countless men and women who put their lives at risk in order to rescue, alleviate and bring solace to the afflicted. Help us to continue to work for a world free from every form of hatred, violence and ignorance. May terrorism -- in all its forms -- disappear from the face of the earth. Amen.
- Fr. Alberto Cutie
This Week at Saint Andrew
Sat Sep 11 - Patriot Day
2:30pm: Confessions
4:00pm: Vigil Mass
Sun Sep 12 - 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time
7:30am: Mass
9:00am: Mass
7:30am: Mass
9:00am: Mass
10:30am: Mass
Mon Sep 13
7:00am: Holy Rosary
7:30am: Mass - Memorial of Saint John Chrysostom, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
8:00am: Divine Mercy Chaplet - Classroom C
6:30pm: The Men of Saint Joseph at Saint Andrew (offsite, if interested in attending contact David Olio: 772-919-2555)
8:30am - 1:00pm: Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament
7:00am: Holy Rosary
7:30am: Mass - Memorial of Saint John Chrysostom, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
8:00am: Divine Mercy Chaplet - Classroom C
6:30pm: The Men of Saint Joseph at Saint Andrew (offsite, if interested in attending contact David Olio: 772-919-2555)
8:30am - 1:00pm: Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament
Tue Sep 14
7:00am: Holy Rosary
7:30am: Mass - Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
7:00am: Holy Rosary
7:30am: Mass - Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
8:00am - 1:00pm: Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament
10:00am: Bible Study: Hebrews, The New & Eternal Covenant (main church)
6:30pm: Bible Study: Book of Romans (main church)
10:00am: Bible Study: Hebrews, The New & Eternal Covenant (main church)
6:30pm: Bible Study: Book of Romans (main church)
Wed Sep 15
7:00am: Holy Rosary
7:30am: Mass - Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows
8:00am - 1:00pm: Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament
10:00am: Rosary Ministry (Classroom C)
10:00am: Rosary Ministry (Classroom C)
Thu Sep 16
7:00am: Holy Rosary
7:30am: Mass - Memorial of Saints Cornelius, Pope, and Saint Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs
7:00am: Holy Rosary
7:30am: Mass - Memorial of Saints Cornelius, Pope, and Saint Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs
8:00am - 1:00pm: Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament
Fri Sep 17
7:00am: Holy Rosary
7:30am: Mass
7:00am: Holy Rosary
7:30am: Mass
8:00am - 1:00pm: Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament
* The Divine Mercy Chaplet is prayed silently before the Blessed Sacrament Tuesday through Friday, and Monday in Classroom C while the church is cleaned.
I will walk before the Lord, in the land of the living.
Bible Study Begins this Tuesday!
Come join us this Tuesday morning, September 14, at 10:00am in the main church for a study on “Hebrews, The New & Eternal Covenant," an 8 week course written by Ascension Press. Call Melanie Gallagher at 772-485-0817 if you're interested in joining.
Also this Tuesday evening another bible study begins at 6:30pm in the main church on the Book of Romans. For questions, call Bob Greeson at 772-283-0342.
Our duty to challenge Catholic politicians who support abortion rights
San Francisco’s Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone published a column in the Washington Post this past Sunday, which said it was “especially disturbing” to see Catholics on the “wrong side of the preeminent human rights issue of our time.”
Cordileone argued that it is appropriate and important for bishops to intervene with “prominent laymen in public life who openly oppose church teachings on abortion.”
The archbishop said abortion is a grave moral evil, and that “you cannot be a good Catholic and support expanding a government-approved right to kill innocent human beings.”
“This is hardly inappropriate for a pastor to say. If anything, Catholic political leaders’ response to the situation in Texas highlights the need for us to say it all the louder.”
Cordileone’s column offered the Church’s teaching on abortion unambiguously. It challenged Catholic politicians who find arguments to exempt themselves from its political implications. And — in a move that has been widely praised as courageous — Cordileone committed himself to continuing to teach Catholic doctrine on the subject, and seemed to call other bishops to do the same.
Video of the Week
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone Shares How Texas Heartbeat Law "Got it Right"
Saint of the Week
Saint John Chrysostom
Feast Day - Sep 13
The ambiguity and intrigue surrounding John, the great preacher (his name means “golden-mouthed”) from Antioch, are characteristic of the life of any great man in a capital city. Brought to Constantinople after a dozen years of priestly service in Syria, John found himself the reluctant victim of an imperial ruse to make him bishop in the greatest city of the empire. Ascetic, unimposing but dignified, and troubled by stomach ailments from his desert days as a monk, John became a bishop under the cloud of imperial politics.
If his body was weak, his tongue was powerful. The content of his sermons, his exegesis of Scripture, were never without a point. Sometimes the point stung the high and mighty. Some sermons lasted up to two hours.
His lifestyle at the imperial court was not appreciated by many courtiers. He offered a modest table to episcopal sycophants hanging around for imperial and ecclesiastical favors. John deplored the court protocol that accorded him precedence before the highest state officials. He would not be a kept man.
His zeal led him to decisive action. Bishops who bribed their way into office were deposed. Many of his sermons called for concrete steps to share wealth with the poor. The rich did not appreciate hearing from John that private property existed because of Adam’s fall from grace any more than married men liked to hear that they were bound to marital fidelity just as much as their wives were. When it came to justice and charity, John acknowledged no double standards.
Aloof, energetic, outspoken, especially when he became excited in the pulpit, John was a sure target for criticism and personal trouble. He was accused of gorging himself secretly on rich wines and fine foods. His faithfulness as spiritual director to the rich widow, Olympia, provoked much gossip attempting to prove him a hypocrite where wealth and chastity were concerned. His actions taken against unworthy bishops in Asia Minor were viewed by other ecclesiastics as a greedy, uncanonical extension of his authority.
Theophilus, archbishop of Alexandria, and Empress Eudoxia were determined to discredit John. Theophilus feared the growth in importance of the Bishop of Constantinople and took occasion to charge John with fostering heresy. Theophilus and other angered bishops were supported by Eudoxia. The empress resented his sermons contrasting gospel values with the excesses of imperial court life. Whether intended or not, sermons mentioning the lurid Jezebel and impious Herodias were associated with the empress, who finally did manage to have John exiled. He died in exile in 407.
If his body was weak, his tongue was powerful. The content of his sermons, his exegesis of Scripture, were never without a point. Sometimes the point stung the high and mighty. Some sermons lasted up to two hours.
His lifestyle at the imperial court was not appreciated by many courtiers. He offered a modest table to episcopal sycophants hanging around for imperial and ecclesiastical favors. John deplored the court protocol that accorded him precedence before the highest state officials. He would not be a kept man.
His zeal led him to decisive action. Bishops who bribed their way into office were deposed. Many of his sermons called for concrete steps to share wealth with the poor. The rich did not appreciate hearing from John that private property existed because of Adam’s fall from grace any more than married men liked to hear that they were bound to marital fidelity just as much as their wives were. When it came to justice and charity, John acknowledged no double standards.
Aloof, energetic, outspoken, especially when he became excited in the pulpit, John was a sure target for criticism and personal trouble. He was accused of gorging himself secretly on rich wines and fine foods. His faithfulness as spiritual director to the rich widow, Olympia, provoked much gossip attempting to prove him a hypocrite where wealth and chastity were concerned. His actions taken against unworthy bishops in Asia Minor were viewed by other ecclesiastics as a greedy, uncanonical extension of his authority.
Theophilus, archbishop of Alexandria, and Empress Eudoxia were determined to discredit John. Theophilus feared the growth in importance of the Bishop of Constantinople and took occasion to charge John with fostering heresy. Theophilus and other angered bishops were supported by Eudoxia. The empress resented his sermons contrasting gospel values with the excesses of imperial court life. Whether intended or not, sermons mentioning the lurid Jezebel and impious Herodias were associated with the empress, who finally did manage to have John exiled. He died in exile in 407.
Has the Church always been against abortion?
Yes, the Catholic Church has always condemned abortion as a grave evil. Christian writers from the first-century author of the Didache to Pope John Paul II in his encyclical Evangelium Vitae (“The Gospel of Life”) have maintained that the Bible forbids abortion just as it forbids murder.
While there has been disagreements as to when the soul is created in the body ("ensoulment") throughout the years, the Church has from its inception taught that abortion is always a grave evil. Moreover, because of modern scientific developments, the ordinary Magisterium of the Church teaches that "ensoulment" occurs at conception.
While there has been disagreements as to when the soul is created in the body ("ensoulment") throughout the years, the Church has from its inception taught that abortion is always a grave evil. Moreover, because of modern scientific developments, the ordinary Magisterium of the Church teaches that "ensoulment" occurs at conception.