WE WELCOME YOU A gracious welcome to all parishioners, guests, and visitors! It is a pleasure to welcome you to our Parish to share a life of faith in Jesus Christ, Our Savior. This is the House of the Lord.

WE WELCOME
FR. NAUGHTON
The Archdiocese of Miami has offically assigned the Reverend Patrick Naughton as Parochial Vicar (Assistant Pastor) to St. John the Baptist parish effective July 1, 2020. Please join us in welcoming Father Naughton to our parish family.

DAILY MASS USHERS NEEDED Thank you to the ushers and volunteers who have generously helped organize and sanitize before and after masses. We are in need of ushers for our daily masses. If you are interested please call the rectory office at (954) 771-8950.

ACT OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNION My Jesus, I believe that you are in the Blessed Sacrament. I love You above all things, and I love for You in my soul. Since I cannot now receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. As though You have aleady come, I embrace You and unite myself entirely too You; never permit me to be separated from You. Amen

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Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Sunday, July 12th at 10:00am

Second Collection July 11th & 12th:
COLLECTION FOR THE
BLACK AND INDIAN MISSION

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Next weekend I encourage you to participate in the annual Black and Indian Mission Collection. This collection has for the last 136 years, changed the landscape of evangelization and education efforts for Native Americans, Alaskan Americans, and African Americans throughout the United States. Our financial support of the Collection is the mechanism that affects the Church's evangelization efforts. We all agree that never have the needs for the Native Americans, Alaskan Americans, and African Americans communities been so great. History tells us that lasting change to a community can all come through faith, hope, and charity.

Historically, evangelization efforts by Churches and schools among African Americans, Native Americans, Eskimo, and Aleut communities, are funded by the Collection's grant awards, which are instrumental in the building of their Christian communities and sharing the joy of knowing Christ. Your support has helped educate African American and Native American seminarians for priestly service to our Catholic communities. It has also helped begin a new religious community for service to Native Americans in Arizona.

Education is fundamental in changing the mores and morals of a society. Your monetary assistance provides opportunities for a solid Catholic education in our Indian and Black Catholic mission schools, allows the purchase of catechetical materials and bibles, and provides for the formation of lay leadership, to name just a few ways the collection supports evangelization.

Together we build up the Church and announce the Good News of Jesus Christ. I ask everyone in the Archdiocese of Miami to make a sacrificial gift to the 2020 Black and Indian Mission Collection. Your generosity to this collection reflects the depths of your faith and your willingness to help our brothers and sisters in need; it is an opportunity to evangelize and further the missionary cause of bringing the Gospel to our African American and Native American family.

Thank you for your prayerful support of the Black and Indian Mission Collection.

Sincerely yours in Christ,

Most Reverend Thomas Wenski
Archbishop of Miami

PRAYER OF THE WEEK

Prayer for the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

O God, who in the abandonment of your Son have raised up a fallen world, fill your faithful with holy joy, for on those you have rescued from slavery to sin you bestow eternal gladness. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.