St.

Anthony Shrine
Tel. 617-542-6440 Website: http://www.StAnthonyShrine.org The Good Word Tel. 617-542-0502 Prayer Request Line Tel. 617-533-4100

100 Arch Street, Boston, MA 02110

& Ministry Center

Sunday, April 20 Saturday, April 26, 2014

WHATS HAPPENING THIS WEEK APRIL

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
SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES
Monday: Tuesday: Sunday: Easter Sunday: Resurrection of the Lord; Julian Calendar Easter Monday within the Octave of Easter Tuesday within the Octave of Easter; Earth Day Wednesday within the Octave of Easter; Administrative Professionals Day Thursday within the Octave of Easter Friday within the Octave of Easter; National Arbor Day Saturday within the Octave of Easter

19 Saturday

Centering Prayer Group, Noon to 1:30 p.m., 4th fl. Francis room

Traditional Easter Basket Blessing, 1:00 p.m., 1st fl. Church Easter Vigil Mass 8:30 p.m., 2nd fl. Church Easter Sunday

20 Sunday

Prison Ministry, SCHC, 8:15 to 11:30 a.m., womens services 12:55 to 2:30 p.m. See legal holiday schedule Shrine closes at 11 a.m.

21 Monday

Patriots Day Legal Holiday

Wednesday: Thursday: Friday:

22 Tuesday

Nutrition consultation*, 10:00 a.m. to Noon (*by appt. 617-542-6440, ext. 118) Blood pressure & Blood Sugar screening, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Wellness Center Honoring Earth Day, Whats in Your Garbage, The Story of Stuff, 12:15 to 1:15 p.m., 2nd fl. classroom (See ad for details.) Honoring Earth Day, Whats in Your Garbage, The Story of Stuff, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., 2nd fl. classroom (repeat) (See ad for details.)

Saturday:

24 Thursday

20s/30s Exploring Intimacy with Fr. Gene Pistacchio, OFM, 6:00 p.m. (See ad for details.) Project Rachel Come to the Waters of Healing retreat (See ad for details.)

Mens Faith Works Spirituality Group, 5:00 to 6:30 p.m., 4th fl. Francis rm (See ad for details.)

23 Wednesday

Bread on the Common, 5:45 to 7:30 p.m., (See ad for details.)

Womens Spiritual Reflection Group, Noon to 1:30 p.m., Contact: Nancy Nichols Kearns, 781-704-1010 or nancynichols1010@yahoo.com

Seniors Mass 10:00 a.m., Exercise 10:30 a.m., The 2014 Liturgical Calendar by Br. Daniel Murray, OFM 11:00 a.m., lunch noon

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

26 Saturday

20s/30s New Member Bowling, time TBA

New Eucharistic Ministers Commissioning, 4 p.m. Mass

The Story of the Weeping Camel, 1:45 to 3:30 p.m., Assisi auditorium stage classroom (See ad for details.)

Cover art: Happy Easter! Spring Flowers, Primroses and Hydrangea Saint Anthony Shrine The Church on Arch Street

Spanish Mass Sundays, 11:45 a.m. in First Floor Church Easter SundayMariachi Band will be providing music

MISA EN ESPAOL Cada domingo a las 11:45 de la maana primer piso

READINGS FOR THE WEEK

Monday: Tuesday:

Whats in Your Garbage? The Story of Stuff

In honor of Earth Day...

Events This Week

Saturday: Sunday:

Wednesday: Thursday: Friday:

Acts 2:14, 22-33; Ps 16:1-2, 5, 7-11; Mt 28:8-15 Acts 2:36-41; Ps 33:4-5, 18-20, 22; Jn 20:11-18 Acts 3:1-10; Ps 105:1-4, 6-9; Lk 24:13-35 Acts 3:11-26; Ps 8:2, 5-9; Lk 24:35-48 Acts 4:1-12; Ps 118:1-2, 4, 22-27; Jn 21:1-14 Acts 4:13-21; Ps 118:1, 14-21; Mk 16:9-15 Acts 2:42-47; Ps 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24; 1 Pt 1:3-9; Jn 20:19-31

We have a problem with Stuff. We use too much, too much of it is toxic and we dont share it very well. But thats not the way things have to be. Together, we can build a society based on better not more, sharing not selfishness, community not division. Join us for a look at the way we make, use and throw away all the Stuff in our lives
Contact Dr. Jackie Stewart to register at 617-542-6440 ext. 143 or email SAS.Evang@gmail.com. Please leave your name, telephone no. Offered by Franciscan Adult School

Tuesday, April 22, 2014 at 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. & repeated at 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Facilitated by Just Matters Group

REGULAR EVENTS
Monday Tuesday

Bread on the Common Street Ministry to Homeless Persons

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 Centering Prayer Group (1st & 3rd Sat.) Noon Vietnamese Secular Franciscans (2nd Sat.) 1:00 p.m. Secular Franciscans (2nd Sat.) 2:00 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. Pieta Ministry Coffee (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.

Wednesday, April 23, 2014. 5:45 to 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

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 most importantly presence, ending at 7:30 p.m.

Mens Faith Works Spirituality Group

Thursday, April 24, 2014. 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. (4th fl. Francis room) Facilitated by Bob Giers, csd & Fr. Jim Czerwinski, OFM

For more information, contact Bob Giers at 617542-6440, ext. 198.

Offered by the Franciscan Spiritual Companionship Ministry

This is a great opportunity for men to come together and grow in their spiritual lives and deepen their personal relationship with God thorough prayer and faith sharing. (Matt. 18:20) when two or more are gathered in my name I am in their midst.

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Friar Presentation Series: Exploring Intimacy with Fr. Gene Pistacchio, ofm
Thursday, April 24, 2014. 6:00 p.m. BYO-dinner, 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. presentation.

For more information, please contact sas20s30s@stanthonyshrine.org. Theses events are for 20s and 30s only.

20s/30s Boston Young Adults

The Story of the Weeping Camel

Inconvenient Films the kind that are unsettling and provocative, inviting discussion

New Member Social - Bowling

Saturday, April 26. Time TBA.

Project Rachel
Project Rachel Post-abortion Ministry
Without the mercy of God, the grief and pain of abortion can last a life time. Retreats offered by the Project Rachel ministry of the Archdiocese of Boston help women find hope, healing and reconciliation after abortion. If you or a loved one is suffering from post-abortion pain, contact Project Rachel about the upcoming Come to the Waters of Healing retreat to be held Saturday, April 26. For more information, call Project Rachel at 508.651.3100 or email help@projectrachelboston.com. All inquiries are confidential.

What is your energy footprint?

Ever wondered how much nature your lifestyle requires? Youre about to find out. See www.myfootprint.org Click onto the United States and complete the quiz. The Ecological Footprint Quiz estimates the amount of land and ocean area required to sustain your consumption patterns and absorb your wastes on an annual basis. After answering 27 easy questions youll be able to compare your Ecological Footprint to others and learn how to reduce your impact on the Earth. How many acres and planets does your footprint consume? Following the quiz, click Take Action. How much could you save by doing what actions?

Contact Dr. Jackie Stewart to register at 617-542-6440 ext. 143 or email SAS.Evang@gmail.com. Please leave your name, telephone no. Offered by Franciscan Adult School

This breathtaking blend of documentary and fiction filmmaking provides an unobtrusive glimpse into the relationships, rituals, and livelihood of a fourgeneration family of nomadic shepherds in the Gobi desert of South Mongolia. It is birthing season for the familys herd of camels and after several healthy foals are born, the last birth is difficult. With quiet perseverance, the family helps to deliver a rare white colt, which the mother camel quickly rejects and refuses to nurse. With growing concern for the colts survival, the family decides to employ a nomadic singing ritual to coax the mother into nurturing her young. They send the two eldest sons on a journey to the nearest village to fetch a musician for the hoos ritual. The story unfolds gently, sensitive to the rhythms of desert life while honoring its real-life actors. This modest yet magnificent film is the graduation project of film students Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni, extending beyond the tale of a camel and colt to explore the fragility and beauty of an ancient way of life.

Saturday, April 26, 2014, 1:45 to 3:30 p.m., Assisi auditorium stage classroom Cost: $5

Saturday, April 26, 2014, 4:00 p.m. Mass and Sunday, April 27, 2014, 10:00 a.m. Mass

New Eucharistic Ministers Commissioning

Saint Anthony Shrine The Church on Arch Street

The Damietta Project

Upcoming Events

Catholics & Muslims working together for the Common Good Core team potluck dinner

Sunday, April 27, 2014. 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Offsite at home of Esra & Ertugrul Cansizoglu

(Dates are tentative pending hotel availability) Leaders: Fr. Gene Pistacchio, OFM & Dr. Jackie Stewart (Costs TBA)
Sunrise, Jerusalem

Not too early to Plan Ahead Join us on our May 19-30, 2015 Holy Land Pilgrimage!

St. Anthony Shrine Just Matters Group Peace & Social Justice & Peace Islands Institute/Turkish Cultural Center

Tuesday, April 29, 2014, 7:30 p.m. Mass St. Columbkille, 321 Market St., Brighton, MA 02135, Fr. Molloy presiding Confirmandi Yoosun Chu Hae-nim Lee

Regional Confirmation for Adults

Note: Group Airline tickets cannot be reserved until eleven months before departure (~June 2014). Cost of trip will be determined at that point. We currently have holds on space in our Galilee hotel and partial in Jerusalem hotel(s). Will be finalized atfter airline space confirmed. The itinerary is being drafted and will be published soon. This will be a most memorable trip, for first timers and returnees.

Please pray for our Confirmandi

Adult Confirmation Program Spring 2014

Saturday, May 10, 2014, 5:30 p.m. Mass St. Anthony Shrine, 2nd fl. Church Bishop Robert E. Hennessey presiding Confirmandi Ashley Alexander Gregory Atkinson Charles Casey Alba Contreras Nicole Hansen Justin John Nathalie Laurent Nicolas Laurent Francine Mansfield Janelle Possard Edward Roach Israel Sanchez Laura Suarez Paulina Szyjka Peter Szyjka Elizabeth Tobin Christopher Walsh Kristen White Emily Wright
SEE CLASS PICTURE ON BACK COVER.

Adult Confirmation at St. Anthony Shrine

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

Pray for Peace in the Middle East! With St. Francis to Compostela September 30-October 8, 2014

9 Days, 7 breakfasts, 4 dinners Prices are per person. Double $3,049 Single: $3,449 Triple: $3,019 Includes: Round Trip Air from Logan, Air taxes & surcharges, hotel transfers Tour agent: Collette Vacations Highlights... Madrid, Spain Logrono - Burgos Samos - Sarria Santiago de Compostela Toledo

For more info, contact Fr. Raphael Bonanno, OFM, 617-542-6440, ext 187. email: rafebon@gmail.com Brochure at front desk of Shrine 5

100 Arch Street Boston, Massachusetts 02110 617.542.6440

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. Cada domingo a las 11:45 de la maana Second Floor Chapel 8:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m.
LEGAL HOLIDAY MASSES MISA EN ESPAOL - PRIMER PISO

Second Floor Chapel 4:00 p.m. ** 5:30 p.m. **

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 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
Fr. Thomas Conway, OFM Executive Director Fr. Barry Langley, OFM Associate Director

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

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.

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION

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

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Spirituality of the Readings

The Resurrection of the Lord A Reading I: Acts 10:34a, 37-43 Responsorial Psalm 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23 Reading II: Colossians 3:1-4 or 1 Corinthians 5:6b-8 Gospel: John 20:1-9 or Matthew 28:1-10

accounts. Maybe the appearance of Jesus in their midst, hair-raising as that must have been, told them. But doubting Thomas had to touch the actual wounds before he could believe. In the end it was the onrushing gift of the Holy Spirit, settling way down in their hearts, that made it all start to come clear. They caught on, some of them, during the breaking of the bread at Emmaus. Did you see it, they might have said; that is what he did with us at the last supper! He broke bread. This is my body, he said. They began to remember again, and for the first time to understand his last lesson for them about his life. love one another was good advice but now he himself had done iteven unto death. Turn the other cheek, he told them, but then he said, I gave my cheek to those who would pluck out my beard. Wasnt that originally in Isaiah? Well, Jesus let them pluck out his life as well. He did it because he would not betray Gods love for them; his love as well. So he will be with us always, since he is the revelation of the love of God the eternal. He will be in the bread and wine. In the Spirit. And that is what Easter means. It will take us the rest of our lives to understand. For now let us just behold it. The rising of the sun in the East. The rising of the Son in the dawn of love, out of the dimness of death and degradation.
Fr. John Foley, S. J. Copyright 2014, 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)

Dawn
Most people see Easter through the lens of Good Friday. This was the point of a short homily on Good Friday many years ago, given by Fr. Marty Palmer, one of my best teachers. I heard his point as this: we are often so intricately aware of the troubles of our lives, of the things we need to be saved from, that the crucifixion touches us very deeply, even though the Resurrection often remains just outside our grasp. We have some hints about Easter, I suppose. It makes things alright again, doesnt it? But what does that mean? And somewhere lurks the question, did he really come back to life? If you have ever had this kind of reaction, you are like the disciples, but perhaps better off. look at the state they must have been in. Memories of Jesus life had burst apart in the terrible chaos of the Passion. His teachings, for instance. love one another. Be good to those who hate you. But now there was no Jesus to stand behind these sayings. no voice saying, Come, follow me. He was gone, along with everything he had taught. Their beliefs were transformed into a lie. It had to be crushing, and they were, suitably, crushed. But there was secret news, not yet out. love had not been defeated at all. Though everything else in Jesus could die, love could not. God lasts forever and God is love. The real meaning of life (and, need I add, of suffering and of death) at last had been revealed: love remains through it all. How did the disciples ever get this news? It was not the stories brought by those who had actually seen Jesus and spoken with him (women). For the most part the apostles (males) did not believe these
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Art: For they did not yet understand the Scripture that he had to rise from the dead. (Gospel) Rembrandt, The Resurrection of Christ, ca 1635-39, detail

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St. Anthony Shrine Adult Confirmation Class of 2014 Confirmandi [*] & Catechists (composite photo)

Back row , left to right: Israel Sanchez*, Nicolas Laurent*, Gregory Atkinson*, Kristen White*, Justin John*, Edward Roach*, Fr. Gene Pistacchio, OFM, Maureen Connell, Dr. Jackie Stewart; Middle row, left to right: Peter Szyjka*, Elizabeth Tobin*, Hae-nim Lee*, Francine Mansfield*, Paulina Szyjka*, Ashley Alexander*, Nicole Hansen*, Christopher Walsh*, Alba Contreras*, Laura Suarez*, Yousun Chu*, Alicja Januszewicz, Sr. Duong Pham, Charles Casey*, Front row, left to right: Emily Wright*, Andria Quattrini & baby Luciano, Justin Quattrini & Jeremiah, Nathalie Laurent*, Sue Petro, Janelle Poussard*