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. 617-542-6826
Sunday, December 22 Saturday, December 28, 2013
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
D E C E M B E R
21 Saturday
Advent Communal Penance Service,
11:30 a.m., 1st fl. Church
Centering Prayer Group, Noon to 1:30 p.m.
Christmas Concert, 7 p.m., 2nd fl. Church
(See ad for details.)
22 Sunday
Prison Ministry, SCHC, 8:15 to 11:30 a.m.
Christmas Concert, 2 p.m., 2nd fl. Church
(See ad for details.)
23 Monday
Blood pressure & Blood Sugar screening,
Flu vaccine, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.,
Wellness Center
24 Tuesday
No events scheduled
25 Wednesday
Christmas
(See special schedule)
Shrine closes at 2 p.m.
26 Thursday
No scheduled events.
WHATS HAPPENING THIS WEEK
REGULAR EVENTS
Monday A.A. 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 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.
2 Saint Anthony Shrine The Church on Arch Street
Cover Art... Nativity, lifesize outdoor display at
LaSalette Shrine. Photo taken December 8, 2013 during
Tonys Travelers trip, Copyright 2013 Dr. Jacqueline
Stewart
SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES
Sunday: Fourth Sunday of Advent
Monday: St. John of Kanty
Tuesday: Vigil of Christmas
Wednesday: The Nativity of the Lord (Christmas)
Thursday: St. Stephen; Kwanzaa begins;
Boxing Day (Canada)
Friday: St. John
Saturday: The Holy Innocents
READINGS FOR THE WEEK
Monday: Mal 3:1-4, 23-34; Ps 25:4-5ab, 8-10, 14;
Lk 1:57-66
Tuesday: 2 Sm 7:1-5, 8b-12, 14a, 16; Ps 89:2-5, 27,
29; Lk 1:67-79
Wednesday: Vigil: Is 62:1-5; Ps 89:4-5, 16-17, 27, 29;
Acts 13:16-17, 22-25; Mt 1:1-25 [18-25]
Night: Is 9:1-6; Ps 96:1-3, 11-13; Ti 2:11-14;
Lk 2:1-14
Dawn: Is 62:11-12; Ps 97:1, 6, 11-12;
Ti 3:4-7; Lk 2:15-20
Day: Is 52:7-10; Ps 98:1-6; Heb 1:1-6;
Jn 1:1-18 [1-5, 9-14]
Thursday: Acts 6:8-10; 7:54-59; Ps 31:3cd-4, 6, 8ab,
16bc, 17; Mt 10:17-22
Friday: 1 Jn 1:1-4; Ps 97:1-2, 5-6, 11-12; Jn 20:1a,
2-8
Saturday: 1 Jn 1:5 2:2; Ps 124:2-5, 7b-8; Mt 2:13-
18
Sunday: Sir 3:2-6, 12-14; Ps 128:1-5;
Col 3:12-21 [12-17]; Mt 2:13-15, 19-23
Events This Week
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A CONCERT OF LESSONS AND CAROLS

with The Arch Street Band
and the Friars of St. Anthony Shrine

Saturday, December 21, 7 PM
Sunday, December 22, 2 PM

$10 tickets ($15 at the door)

Sponsorships welcome!
$50 (Frankincense)
$100 (Myrrh)
$150 (Gold)

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Is there someone you
know who will be alone
this Christmas? Invite
them to be part of your
Merry Christmas!
Peace and all Good!
Pray for Peace in the Middle East!
4 Saint Anthony Shrine The Church on Arch Street
Fourth Sunday of Advent A
Reading I: Isaiah 7:10-14
Responsorial Psalm 24:1-2, 3-4, 5-6
Reading II: Romans 1:1-7
Gospel: Matthew 1:18-24
An Inner Assurance
A dream changed Josephs life and ours. A mere
dream, like what you and I have most every night.
Everyone could see that Josephs fianc was in a
family way. USA culture might applaud this fact,
as it does when movie stars have children with
whomever they feel like as often as they feel like it.
But in Biblical culture marriage was a sacred act, a
participation in Gods own fidelity, and it seemed
that, as far as the townspeople could see, Mary had
broken with that fidelity. The Blessed Mother a
public sinner! No wonder Joseph was making
arrangements for a quiet divorce.
How could a plain old dream change this? In
Sundays Gospel, a dreamed-up angel tells Joseph
that Marys pregnancy is from the Holy Spirit of
God. Mary had accepted this fact readily but
without really understanding. Joseph should not
be afraid of the pregnancy, he was told, even
though he had not yet even married this woman!
So why in the world would he reverse himself and
trust a vision from his sleep? Do you trust dreams?
A friend of mine had one about a kangaroo which
was sitting on the roof in a rocking chair smoking
a pipe! Should my friend check the rooftop for
cozy rocking chairs and ash trays, just in case? No
of course not. We take a dream for what it is, a
mechanism of our psyche that somehow processes
our experience but does not give us literal truth.
We do not rely on them for life-changing messages.
Why did Joseph?
I think the answer has to do with something St.
Ignatius of Loyola calls discernment.
In general, discernment is an examination of ones
internal reactions (movements of spirit),
especially in prayer. There are many different
Spirituality of the Readings
movements, of course, but there is one that may
describe Josephs dream. Sometimes, rarely, grace
is so gently strong that the person praying has an
inner assurance that the experience did not come
from imagination at all, but from God. Somehow
this grace turns out to be impossible to doubt.
You and I have to be careful not to get carried away
by such a notion. Probably many of us could
convince ourselves that God or an angel spoke to
us this morning. We need to discern which
experiences are from God and which are not. Are
they quiet? Do they lead toward God or away?
What is the long-term result? A spiritual director
could help us sort through such questions.
That said, I think Josephs dream might have been
a movement of this kind. It containedinstead of
a kangarooa quiet certainty
of the presence of God. No
doubts followed it, though
they would surely have
seemed warranted. Josephs
dream was like the face of
mother to a child. It was like
the voice of a close friend.
Joseph was a good man. He
already had a storehouse of
trust in Gods love. He did
not experience this treasury as
broken into, shattered, or
pulled to pieces by the dream.
Instead the message fit right
into the design of Josephs life
with God. And so he
followed.
What is your own internal
sense of Marys pregnancy? Is
the birth of God an impossible
tale reserved for children? Or
do you find the roots of trust
within yourself as Joseph did?
Decide soon! Christmas is coming.
Fr. John Foley, S. J.
Copyright 2013, The Center for Liturgy at Saint Louis University.
All rights reserved. Used by permission.
You are invited to write a note to the author of this reflection:
Fr. John Foley, S. J. (johnbfoley@yahoo.com)
Nativity of the Lord (Christmas) A
Vigil Mass (December 24)
Mass at Midnight
Mass at Dawn
Mass During the Day
Giving and Receivingl
Have you ever worried about the gifts you give for
Christmas? Well, not the gifts themselves but
whether they will please the ones who receive
them?
For instance, what if the giftee forces a courtesy
smile and says, Oh it is just what I wanted, or
something similar? What if,
later in the year, by accident,
waiting for the person to
answer their door which you
have just knocked on, you
glimpse the family rushing to
bring your last years gift up
from the basement and hang it
up in the living room?
So I used to keep second-
guessing myself on every gift
I shopped for. Look there, I
would say, that is the perfect
gift for this person, just right!
But wait a minute, they dont
have a fireplace mantle to sit it
on. Or, will it go with their
dcor? Or does he or she even
like that kind of thing. Maybe
I will look like a fool. Or, or,
or, or.
Or.
Thats normal, isnt it?
Normal agonizing.
A great friend of mine from South Africa helped
me out with this dilemma. Kolile was his name
(Ko-le-leh, but pronounced with a click instead of
the K*) and he told me, You are trying to do
someone elses job. Do your own. Your task is to
give the gift. Let them take care of receiving it.
Spirituality of the Readings
He gave two examples. In Africa the women at the
parish work for many days preparing a feast. All
the food is beautiful, tasty, and set out perfectly.
At last the day arrives, the doors open, and
minutes later the whole presentation looks like
plowed earththe food picked over, the people
happy but oblivious. This does not bother the
women, he said. It is up to the people to receive it
in whatever way seems right. The womens part of
the exchange is to make the gift ready, and they
love doing it.
Then he said, in his gruff but gracious way, that in
his part of Africa it is the custom to bring a present
to the person you are visiting. He and others
walked the long journey to visit his father, who
happened to love roast beef. Kolile brought along
a big chunk of roast and put it on the table when
they got there. His father said, no, thank you, I do
not like that any more.
Kolile was not bothered. I did my part, he said,
and my father did his. All was well.
So I began to choose gifts that just felt right for each
person on my Christmas list. I did not worry and
worry whether it would please them, I let the
person fill my mind and when I saw something
that matched my sense of them, I bought it.
Without worry. Every gift did actually delight the
one who received it, but that isnt the point. My job
was to open my heart and give. I let them take care
of receiving it.
Maybe this is what God does at Christmas. So
many people do say No thanks to the Christ
child. But the Christmas babe is not born in order
to get accepted. He is the spilling over of Gods
immense love for us. When God lets each of us
into his mind, he senses that the baby Jesus is the
perfect gift.
Merry Christmas!
________
* Kolile kept making me pronounce his name correctly. I
asked, why do I have to insert the click on the first syllable
when everybody else just says 'ko'? Because you can, he
said. God rest his soul.
Fr. John Foley, S. J.
Copyright 2013, The Center for Liturgy at Saint Louis University.
All rights reserved. Used by permission.
You are invited to write a note to the author of this reflection:
Fr. John Foley, S. J. (johnbfoley@yahoo.com)
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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
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Partial Preview - Winter/Spring Events
Franciscan Adult School/Evangelization
Contact: Dr. Jackie Stewart, St. Anthony Shrine, 617-
542-6440, ext. 143 or email SAS.Evang@gmail.com.
Faith Encounters the Ecological
Crisis - Just Matters study module
2014 session dates (# and faciltators)
Tuesdays, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., 2nd fl classroom
#Five, January 7, 2014, Lino Viola & Bob Giers
#Six, January 21, 2014, Diane Rollo
#Seven, February 4, 2014, Patty & Bruce
McKinnon
#Eight, February 18, 2014, Jackie Stewart &
Fr. Geno Pistacchio, OFM
LGBT Parents Support Group
Sundays. January 12 & February 9, 2014
1:45 to 3:00 p.m., 2nd fl. classroom
Facilitator: Fr. Joe Quinn, OFM, LGBT Ministry
The Spirituality of Pope Francis.the
Jesuit Pope with the heart and spirit of
Saint Francis of Assisi
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
12:15 to 1:15 p.m. & repeated, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
2nd fl classroom
Presenter: Br. John Maganzini, OFM
Cost: Free will offering ($5 suggested).
LGBT Spirituality Group
Wednesdays., January 15 & February 19, 2014
5:30 to 7:00 p.m.,
Assisi auditorium stage classroom
Facilitator: Fr. Joe Quinn, OFM, LGBT Ministry
The Religious Experience: Presence or
Absence in Your Life
Tuesdays, February 4 & 11, 2014,
12:15 to 1:15 p.m., 2nd fl classroom
Presenter: Fr. Raphael Bonanno, OFM
Cost: $5/session
Grief Support Group
Mondays, 5:30 to 6:45 p.m., February 10, 17, 24;
March 3, 10, 17*, 2014 (*Mass), Clare room
Preregistration required.
Facilitator: Fr. Joe Quinn, OFM, Grief Ministry
Contact: Fr. Joe, 617-542-6440, ext. 239
Upcoming Events
Buddhism and Christianity:.
beginning Tuesdays, February 18, 2014
12:15 to 1:30 p.m., 2nd fl classroom
Presenter: William (Bill) Sawyer, II
Cost: Free will ($10/session suggested)
Come to one or many sessions.
Adult Confirmation Program - Spring
2014
Saturdays, March 8, 15, 22, 29; April 5, 2014
10:30 to Noon, 2nd fl classroom
Leaders: Dr. Jackie Stewart, Maureen Connell,
Justin Quattrini. No fee. Pre-registration
required. (See ad for details.)
Reflection: Nailing Jesus to the Cross,
Over and Over Again
Thursdays. March 20, 2; April 3, 2014
6:00 to 7:00 p.m., 2nd fl Church
Presenter: Fr. Joe Quinn, OFM
Cost: Free will offering.
Lenten Twilight Retreat
Monday, March 24, 2014, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
4th fl Clare & Francis rooms
Facilitators: Fr. John Hogan, OFM, Fr. Gene
Pistacchio, OFM, Dr. Jackie Stewart & TBA
Cost: $15 (incl. supper)
Pre-registration required. Accepting reservations
now. Space limited.
Inconvenient Film Series (Cost: $5/film)
Dates and classrooms TBA
Like Stars on Earth, (rescheduled from Dec.
14) Sat., TBD, 2014, 12:30 to 3:30 p.m.,
classroom TBA
Under the Same Moon, Sat., TBD, 2014, 1:30
to 3:30 p.m., Assisi auditorium stage classroom
The Story of the Weeping Camel, Sat., TBD,
2014, 1:45 to 3:30 p.m., classroom TBA
Even the Rain, Sat., TBD, 2014, 1:30 to 3:30
p.m., classroom TBA
Jesus of Montreal, Sat., TBD, 2014, 1:15 to
3:30 p.m., classroom TBA
Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet,
Film & discussion
Date TBD, 2014, 5:30 to 8:00 p.m., auditorium
stage classroom
Facilitators: Damietta Project, Catholics and
Muslims working together for the common good
Adult Confirmation Preparation
Adult Confirmation Classes2014
March 8, 15, 22, 29 & April 5 (2014).
10:30 a.m. to Noon
Leaders: Dr. Jackie Stewart, Maureen Connell,
Justin Quattrini
Have you been Baptized and made First
Communion in the Catholic Church but are not
yet confirmed?
(Are you planning on getting married in the
Catholic Church?)
Adult Confirmation classes begin on Saturday
mornings in early March 2014 at St. Anthony
Shrine for adults (ages 20 and over). Those
preparing for the sacrament, and their sponsors
(not required) are all welcome.
Candidates for Confirmation are adults who
participate in Sunday Liturgy and the sacraments.
Prospective candidates for Confirmation in Spring
2014 need to pre-register by Monday, February
24, 2014. Copy of Baptismal certificate is required.
Candidates will be confirmed at the Regional
Confirmation (TBA).
Registrations are now being accepted. Please
contact Dr. Jackie Stewart at 617-542-6440, ext.
143 or email SAS.Evang@gmail.com for more
details and to register or see flyers in lobby.
Offered by Evangelization
Not too early to Plan Ahead Join us on our
May 19-30, 2015 Holy Land Pilgrimage!
(Dates are tentative pending hotel availability)
Leaders: Fr. Gene Pistacchio, OFM &
Dr. Jackie Stewart (Costs TBA)
Budget Suggestion: Start your Pilgrimage Club, (If you
start saving in December 2013, recommend saving
$87/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
Photos: Above - candle lit in the grotto of the Nativity, Right beginning at the top - medallion of the Nativity, a pilgrim
reverencing the Nativity medallion, fresco of the Nativity. Bethlehem, Israel. Copyright 2013 Dr. Jacqueline Stewart
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