1738 W. University Ave, Gainesville, Fl 32603-1839 • (352) 372-3533 • Fax (352) 378-9010

Home of the

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

catholicgators.org

MASS TIMES

Sunday 9:00am Family Mass 11:30am 1:30pm (Spanish) 5:30pm 7:30pm

Mon-Fri. 12:00pm | 5:30pm

Saturday 5:30pm Vigil

OFFICE HOURS

Mon, Th, Fri Tue, Wed

10:00am-5:00pm 9:00am-5:00pm

RECONCILIATION M-F 4:30pm—5:20pm

EUCHARISTIC ADORATION

Monday Wednesday Friday

6:00-7:00pm 4:30-5:20pm 8:15-9:15am

FIRST FRIDAY 5:30pm Mass of the Sacred Heart and

Eucharistic Adoration

ROSARY Monday-Friday 11:25am

January 21, 2018 • Third Sunday in Ordinary

Tax Statements pg 4

Theology on Tap pg 5

Vatican II and Beyond pg 7

2

Information

Clergy & Staff Members St. Augustine Church Pastor Father David Ruchinski Parochial Vicar Father Philip Timlin Administrative Assistant to the Pastor Gail Fitzsimmons RCIA and Young Adult Ministry Coordinator

Vincent Herzog Liturgy Coordinator Melissa Likamwa Music Coordinator Lindsey Tran Religious Education Coordinator Elena Melendez Facilities & Operations Manager Mary T. Wise Bookkeeper Lee Ann Andrewskiewicz Parish Secretaries Brian Gulig Cecile Sands Communications Liaison Itzel Guzman The Catholic Student Center Director of the Catholic Student Center Father David Ruchinski Assistant Director Ashley Hemingway Campus Minister Sandy DeTeresa Director of Development Mel Rio Campus Ministry Assistant Sr. Ana-Luisa Galvan Alumni Outreach Coordinator Lauren Troncoso Parish Evangelization Team Coordinator Natalie Molina Seminarian Clay Ludwig FOCUS Missionaries Andrew Collins Drew Decker Kassandra Leal Hayley Tomilson Chloe Page

Date Intentions Events

Sunday, January 21 Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Jon 3:1-5, 10 1 Cor 7:29-31 Mk 1:14-20

9:00am Marie Sammarco by Jennifer Ramos 11:30am 1:30pm For the Parish 5:30pm 7:30pm

9:15am Women’s Book Group 9:45am Religious Ed 12:30pm Life Teen/Edge 3:00pm Spanish RCIA 7:00pm RCIA

Monday, January 22 Day of Prayer for the legal protection of Unborn Children 2 Sm 5:1-7, 10 Mk 3:22-30

12:00pm 5:30pm

6:30pm Sacramental Prep

Tuesday, January 23 Weekday 2 Sm 6:12b-15, 17-19 Mk 3:31-35

12:00pm 5:30pm Victor & Celerina Espinoza by Altair Espinoza

4:30pm Music Ministry Rehearsal 6:15pm Newman Dinner 7:30pm Spanish Choir Rehearsal

Wednesday, January 24 Saint Francis de Sales, Bishop and Doctor of the Church 2 Sm 7:4-17 Mk 4:1-20

12:00pm St. Augustine parish and student center friends, alumni and benefactors 5:30pm

6:00pm CMC Progressive Dinner 7:00pm Cursillo 9:15pm Ministry Formation

Thursday, January 25 The Conversion of Saint Paul, Apostle Acts 22:3-16 or 9:1-22 Mk 16:15-18

12:00pm 5:30pm

9:00am CCMA Regional Gathering 6:00pm Upper Room 6:30pm Choir Rehearsal

Friday, January 26 Saint Timothy and Saint Titus, Bishops 2 Tm 1:1-8 or Ti 1:1-5 Mk 4:26-34

12:00pm 5:30pm

Saturday, January 27 Weekday 2 Sm 12:1-7a, 10-17 Mk 4:35-41

5:30pm 9:00am Vatican II Seminar 3:00pm Adoration (Life Teen) 5:30pm Vigil Mass

RCIA Sacramental Preparation Sacrament of Marriage Sacrament of Baptism

Contact Vincent Herzog at vincent@catholicgators.org

Call the office for information on First Reconciliation, First Communion, High School Confirmation, & Adult Confirmation preparation.

Couples should meet with a priest at least eight months prior to the wedding. The wedding date should not be set before talking with a priest. Contact Gail Fitzsimmons at gail@catholicgators.org for an orientation session.

Parents and prospective godparents needing to attend a baptism class should complete the Baptism Registration or Sponsor/Godparent Eligibility at catholicgators.org. Fr Philip Timlin, will contact you when we receive your registrations. Please call the parish office (352.372.3533) with questions.

The Tabernacle Candle is being sponsored this week in honor of Erica Cruz by Maria Ignacia Cruz

January 21, 2018 • Third Sunday in Ordinary

3

Parish Stewardship

Stewardship Spotlight - Third Sunday in Ordinary Time January 21, 2018

The theme for today’s first reading from Jonah is evangelization leading to repentance and salvation. Jonah was charged by God to warn the city of

Nineveh to repent or be destroyed. He warned the people and they repented, so God did not destroy the city. Jonah acted as a prophet of God and

saved over 100,000 people. We live in a society that performs much worse actions than in Nineveh, and we are baptized to be priests, prophets,

and kings. How many of us, however, proclaim God’s word in an attempt to change our society and perhaps save some wayward souls? I venture

to say, and speaking for myself, very few.

Now the other part of the story of Jonah that most everyone knows is him being swallowed by a large fish (some say a whale). He was swallowed

by the fish because he was fleeing by boat from God’s command that he prophesy in Nineveh. God troubled the boat to the point that the crew

threw him overboard. After the fish spit Jonah out at Nineveh, he did wat he was commanded to do, as told in the first reading.

The other part of the story that even fewer people know is that after Nineveh was saved by Jonah’s prophesying, he was angry at God for not

destroying the city! He was so full of self-righteousness that he had personally condemned the whole city. Fortunately, God’s mercy is far more

powerful than our petty judgments. This part of the story should make us ask ourselves if we are more interested in seeing the people we judge as

being bad or evil punished, rather than being converted and saved. Look at the parables that Jesus gave us showing the joy in heaven over

repentant sinners.

Are we content to count on our own salvation and leave our brothers sisters to their own fates with no attempt at intervention from us? Will we

ultimately be held accountable for the people whom we did not even attempt to lead to God? In the book of Ezekiel (3:18), God says “If I say to

the wicked, ‘You shall surely die’ — and you do not warn them or speak out to dissuade the wicked from their evil conduct in order to save their

lives — then they shall die for their sin, but I will hold you responsible for their blood.”.

We are stewards of God’s Word, his Mercy, and his Kingdom on Earth. Are we willing to accept God’s command that we make disciples of all

nations (yes, even our nation and society) to save them from ultimate destruction?

Paul Gulig

Member, Stewardship Committee and Chair, Parish Council

January 21, 2018 • Third Sunday in Ordinary

STEWARDSHIP Masses on January 14, 2018

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Offertory $5,968.82 Sanctuary Renovation $70.00

E-Giving Offertory $3,925.00 Poor Box $110.69

E-Giving Student Center $225.00 Advent-Christmas Appeal $200.00

Student Center $294.11 Mercedarian Sisters $5.00

TOTAL STEWARDSHIP $10,798.62

Around the parish, greater

Gainesville and the Diocese

4

All human life is sacred because from its inception it involves the creative action of God. God alone is the author of life from its

beginning to its end therefore no one can take it upon themselves to directly destroy a human life. (CCC #2258)

January 21, 2018 • Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Retreat & Lock-In

When: 11:00AM Saturday, January 27th until 1:30PM Sunday, January 28th Where: St. Augustine Catholic Church/Hurley Hall There will be: Food Crafts Speakers Games Adoration Prayer Movies Mass Music

$10/ family to help pay for food/other retreat costs

Please plan to have your teen attend!

“Invite friends!” Everyone must register For Registration Information please contact Kelly Quintana at lifeteen@catholicgators.org or at 352-219-8059 or visit catholicgators.org

Women’s Book Club

The Women’s Book Group will resume meeting on January 28th at 9:15 in the downstairs conference room. This month we will be reading James Martin’s book “The Jesuit Guide to (almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life”. All women are welcome.

Lourdes Virtual Pilgrimage Experience

Tax Statements

Fill out the form below to receive a charitable tax statement for the year 2017. Check off if you want the statement emailed, mailed, or to be picked-up in the office. Completed forms can be placed in the collection baskets. Name ___________________________ Address _________________________________________ _____________________________________ Email ______________________________________ Telephone _______________________________________

Email□ Mail□ Pick-up □

Saturday, February 10, 2018 after the 9:00 am Mass

St. Madeleine Catholic Church Our Lady of Lourdes Hospitality North American Volunteers will present a 2-hour Lourdes Virtual Pilgrimage Experience During this guided Lourdes Experience, you will immerse yourself in the Gospel Message of Lourdes as given by Our Lady to St. Bernadette. You will have the opportunity to touch the Grotto Rock and to experience the healing grace of Lourdes Water. As part of this spiritual opportunity to draw nearer to God with Our Lady and St. Bernadette, you will receive a Eucharistic blessing and pray the Rosary. A Plenary Indulgence is granted to all the faithful, under the usual conditions, who attend this Expe-rience! Come and encounter the healing grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ through His Immaculate Mother. Invite your family and friends! Our Lady extends her invitation to all! The next best thing to visiting Lourdes itself is a Pilgrimage journey without the travel! For more information, call Filomena Smolenski at 352-333- 0058. St. Madeleine Sophie Catholic Church 17155 NW US Hwy. 441 High Springs, FL 32643

Catholic Student Center and

Young Adult Ministries

5

Bulletin deadlines

Bulletin submissions are due by Monday at 8:00 p.m.

Please email your requests to itzel@catholicgators.org.

Saint Vincent de Paul (St. Patrick-Gainesville Conference) meets weekly to discuss and plan to help those less fortunate. If you would like to

volunteer in Gainesville, please call 352-222-0588. We are starting a SVdP in Newberry, (St. Francis-Newberry Conference) 17 miles from Gainesville. If you'd like to help us get started in Newberry, please call 352-660-9310.

Saint Vincent de Paul Society

Come join the Upper Room!

A Catholic group of graduate students and young professionals.

Email vincent@catholicgators.org for more

information.

January 21, 2018 • Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Theology on Tap Gainesville

When? Monday, January 29th from 7pm-9pm Where? Blackadder Brewery What? Talk: Why Celibacy? Who? Fr . Dominic Tran of the Salesians

Saturday, February 3, 2018 @ 6:15 pm

Each year we host a Banquet for Life to celebrate Life of all ages and to raise awareness of our Medical Center. This is our main

fundraising event. The program includes a banquet dinner, musical accompaniment, a raffle, a video presentation, and a Keynote

Speaker. This year’s speaker will be Mary Ann Kuharski, a founding member of PROLIFE Across AMERICA. The purpose of this event is

to communicate with our supporters about our progress and to raise donations for our clinic. Our community has made our mission

possible through prayers, donations, and services. Our intention is for this annual event to be a fun celebration of Life, so all are welcome

and invited to attend the Banquet. If planning to attend, please contact us at A Woman’s Answer Medical Center before January 29, 2018 at

352-367-2716

Ministerio Hispano

6

La vida humana ha de ser tenida como sagrada, porque desde su inicio es fruto de la acción creadora de Dios. Sólo Dios es Señor de la

vida desde su comienzo hasta su término; nadie, en ninguna circunstancia, puede atribuirse el derecho de matar de modo directo a un ser humano inocente. (CIC #2258)

January 21, 2018 • Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Greater Gainesville, catholic schools, the

Diocese and The parish

7

Vatican II and Beyond

Saturday January 27 10am-2pm The adult learning committee of the parish has invited 3 exciting speakers to help us learn more about Vatican II and what has been happening since Pope Francis was elected. This seminar will take place in the lounge. 9:30-10:00 coffee and social 10:00-11:00 Principles of the Sacred Liturgy from Vatican II – Rev. Thomas Willis 11-11:15 break 11:15-12:15 Dei Verbum: Word of God Inviting Us Into Relationship – Marijka Ulanowicz 12:15-1:00 lunch 1:00-2:00 Vatican II Takes Wing Under Pope Francis- Tom Rinkoski Come and start the new year by learning more about your church!

January 21, 2018 • Third Sunday in Ordinary Time