www.sjcpinole.org
Saint Joseph Parish
July 21, 2013Priests & Deacon
Pastor:Fr. Paul Schmidt
Parochial Vicars:Fr. Mark Amaral
Fr. Eddie Castañas
Deacon:Dn. Les Miyashiro
Mass Times
DAILY:7:30 am
9:00 am
1st Friday:7:30 pm
SATURDAY: 8:00 am
(Vigil) 5:00 pm
(en español) 7:00 pm
SUNDAY:
7:00 am
8:30
am
10:30
am
12:30
pm
(Youth) 5:30 pm
Reconciliation
Saturday: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
SACRAMENTS:
Inquiries about Baptism, Marriage or Rites of Initiation of Adults, please call the Parish Center, (510) 741-4900. Information also at www.sjcpinole.org
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
(Year C)
First Reading —As a mother comforts her child, so
will I comfort you. (Isaiah 66:10-14c)
Psalm — Let all the earth cry out to God with joy.
(Psalm 66)
Second Reading — May I never boast except in the
cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. (Galatians 6:14-18)
Gospel — Jesus sends out the seventy-two.
(Luke 10:1-12, 17-20 [1-9])
Please remember to turn off your cellphones or electronic devices when inside the church.
Church
: 837 Tennent Avenue, Pinole CA 94564
School
:1961 Plum St., Pinole CA 94564 (510) 724-0242, Fax 724-9886
Reflections
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Next weekend we will welcome Father George Berendt of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME). Father Berendt comes from Detroit (the hometown of Archbishops Vigneron and Brunett). He served in Japan and elsewhere, and is able to celebrate our Spanish Mass. We look forward to his visit.
The Mission Cooperative program is an annual opportunity for us to hear from a particular mission society. This program is set up by the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, so that different missionary groups will be able to meet with Catholics and tell their story in all the parishes. No one parish is overwhelmed with many groups each year. Over the years, each parish is exposed to the variety of these groups and the kinds of missionary works they are accomplishing.
The Second Vatican Council produced an entire document on the Missionary Activity of the Church. A key statement of this decree is this: “The pilgrim Church is missionary by her very nature.” This means that we are all missionaries in some way. Those who “go to the missions” in the USA or abroad are the ones who come to speak to us each year. But we who stay at home also have a missionary vocation.
Chapter VI of the Council’s decree is devoted to Missionary Cooperation. It begins with a fundamental truth. “Since the whole Church is missionary, and the work of evangelization is a basic duty of the People of God, this sacred Synod summons all to a deep interior renewal.” No one can give what he or she does not have. The purpose of the Second Vatican Council was the renewal of the Church. This begins with each of us. “Let all realize that their first and most important obligation toward the spread of the faith is this: to lead a profoundly Christian life. For their fervor in the service of God and their charity toward others will cause new spiritual inspiration to sweep over the whole Church. Then she will appear as a sign lifted up among the nations, the light of the world, and the salt of the earth.”
The Council recognized that a community of believers who really appreciate their gift of faith will be a community which wants to share that gift with others. Vocations to missionary groups will come forth. Prayer and penance will support the work of missionaries. Motivated Christians will give financial support to the work of these missionaries and to the people they serve.
The bishops of the Council acknowledged their own collegial vocation to assist in missionary work. “As members of the body of bishops which succeeds the College of the Apostles, all bishops are consecrated not just for one diocese, but for the salvation of the entire world. Christ’s mandate to preach the gospel to every creature primarily and immediately concerns them, with Peter and under Peter.” Just as no parish stands alone, but is a part of a diocese, no diocese stands alone, but is in communion with all the dioceses of the Church throughout the world. The strong help the weak. Where the Church is firmly rooted, it reaches out to places where the seed of the Gospel has been recently sown, has not yet been planted, or has withered away.
Our participation in the annual Mission Appeal is one way we support our bishop in his responsibility to the Church at large, and exercise our own missionary vocation. St. Joseph Parish has always responded generously to this effort.
Your Pastor,
Father Paul Schmidt
P.S. I’ll be away on vacation in Europe until August 17. Please pray that I will have safe journeys going and returning.
Fr. Paul Schmidt
Our first
and most
important
obligation
toward
the spread
of faith,
is to lead a
profoundly
Christian life.
Please Pray for Our Loved Ones Overseas in the Military, and Their Families: Shawn Betschart, Army; Darryl Jason Garcia, Army; and, Rebecca Sabatini, National Guard.
Our Week at St. Joseph’s
Please Pray for Our Sick Relatives & Friends
Parish Calendar
Sunday, July 21
7:00 am Hospitality/Adult Faith Formation - PH 8:00 am 7:00 AM Choir Practice - PC
10:30 am 12:30 PM Choir Practice - PC 10:30 am Children’s Liturgy of the Word - PH 3:00 pm Youth Mass Choir Practice - CH
Monday, July 22
7:30 pm Asociación Guadalupana Rosario - PC
Tuesday, July 23
6:00 pm Faith Formation - PC 7:30 pm Cursillo Men’s Group - PC
Wednesday, July 24
9:30 am Our Mother of Perpetual Help - CH 10:45 am New Covenant Prayer Group - PC 7:00 pm Boy Scout Troop 81 - PH
7:00 pm Spanish Choir Practice - PC
7:30 pm Asoc. Guadalupana Prayer Group - PC
Thursday, July 25
6:30 pm Oktoberfest All Team Meeting - PH 7:30 pm Family Choir Practice - PC
Friday, July 26
9:45 am Friday AM Adoration - CH
7:00 pm 8:30 & 10:30 AM Choirs Practice - CH 7:30 pm Brothers in Christ “3 Paths to Holiness”- PC
Saturday, July 27
4:00 pm 5 PM Choir Practice - PH
8:00 pm Asociación Guadalupana Holy Hour - CH 8:00 pm Asociación Guadalupana Hospitality - PH
Sunday, July 28
7:00 am Hospitality/Boy Scouts - PH 8:00 am 7:00 AM Choir Practice - PC 10:30 am 12:30 PM Choir Practice - PC 10:30 am Children’s Liturgy of the Word - PH 3:00 pm Youth Mass Choir Practice - CH
CH - Church, PH - Parish Hall, PC - Parish Center, SC - School
Mass Intentions
Saturday, July 20
St. Apollinaris 5:00 pm Hope & Perseverance of Murella Family7:00 pm Pereira Families (Deceased Members) † S
unday, July 21
7:00 am Fernando & Anita Escano † 8:30 am Gregorio Acosta (Special Intention) 10:30 am Maria Pak Marte †
12:30 pm Rose Mary Torres (Birthday) 5:30 pm Parishioners of St. Joseph
Monday, July 22
St. Mary Magdalene 7:30 am Maria Killilea †9:00 am Jada Escano (Birthday)
Tuesday, July 23
St. Bridget7:30 am Conrado Escano † 9:00 am Dorothy Spellacy †
Wednesday, July 24
St. Sharbel Makhluf7:30 am Macario Gerbacio † 9:00 am Enriqueto Marte †
Thursday, July 25
St. James 7:30 am John Killilea † 9:00 am Francisco Tolentino †Friday, July 26
St. Joachim & Anne7:30 am Ray Spellacy † 9:00 am Pastor Marquez †
Saturday, July 27
8:00 am Jennifer Jimenez (Birthday)
5:00 pm Luis & Tessie Lirio (Thanksgiving) 7:00 pm Parishioners of St. Joseph
S
unday, July 28
7:00 am Eddie Ben Alicante † 8:30 am Joe D. Lobo, Sr. †
10:30 am Felicisima Benamer † 12:30 pm Celsa Torres (Birthday)
5:30 pm Martina Peras †
Julissa Ando, Leticia Anstey, Isabel Benavidez, Mike Becker, Bernabe R. Bernardo, Felisa R. Bernardo, Mariano Berona, Ramona Braza, John Byrne, Catalina Caoile, Jo F. Carey, Aulton Carlock, Karen Cartwright, David Castrillo, Juanita Castrillo, Karl Castrillo, Lisa Catoner, Sharon Chilson, Gilbert Chua, Donna Cowen, Colleen Cronin, Tom Cutino, Irene Dabu, Donna Day, Leonor De Dios, Tina Ditta, Mary Louise Duhart, Fil Dumalag, Hector & Leonila Duque, Hilario Duque, Sr. Mary Felicity OCD, Anita Ferrer, Rita Figueira, Teresita Gallardo, Rose Marie Goke, Catalina Gonzalez, Maja Guerrero, Joe Gutierrez, Anthony Holden, Richard Hoop, Ley & Tony Ibasco, Bill & Pamela Jones, Kelli Kierstead, Carmen Kruger, Joan Kunze, Helen La Fountain, Ann Kamille Labay, John & Shamisa Lauderdale, Leslie Lawless, Jessica Lawless, Christopher Longmire, Fidel Lucero, Imelda F. Magat, Anela Malani Medalle, Danielle & RoseMary Moore, Olive Myers, Aster Navarro, Jasmine Naraja, James Nation, Wennie Nuguid, Joanna Nelson, Mark Nelson, Francois Njike, Angelica Nodia, Enriqueta Nool, Lisa Paine, Elet Pagmanua, Christian G. Pascual, Leticia F. Poblete, Dominic Prado, Gloria M. Purificacion, Grace Quiddaoean, Don Rondeau, Gary Rondeau, Msgr. Harry Schlitt, Corinne Schultz, Gloria Sendaydiego, Dimitra Siderakis, Juan Spampinato, Eller Sunga, Hortense Swing, Peter & May Tam, Fe A. Tamparong, Joaquina P. Tapayan, Jeffrey Tayag, Jesus Tayag, Archie Toledo, Flor Tolentino, Liviu Tomutsa,
Keytoen Townsend, Abraham Trinidad, B. Jay Trinidad, Bernard Trinidad, Rev. Eugene Tungol, Buenaventura Ugarte, Alma N. Valeros,
Mary Vanderzwan, Julita Varquez, Rosie Vidal,
Vincetta Ward, Julie Wee, Pam White, Benjamin Yuson, Brittany Ziegler, Jerry Zivney & Barbara Zybach.
If a name should remain in August, please call the office.
St. Joseph School will celebrate 50 years of a faith-filled tradition of academic excellence and service! On September 22, 2013, an Alumni Mass and reception is being planned. We’d love to get copies of pictures from the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s for a slide show in the school gym. If you are able to scan your classic pictures, save them in jpeg format; please send them to Kathy Brunstein (class 1972) at [email protected] or you may drop off your labeled and addressed pictures at the school office. Your pictures will be mailed back to you.
Stewardship
Today’s readings speak of hospitality. Abraham, who cheerfully did for his guests all that desert hospitality required, was rewarded with his heart’s desire -- a son. Martha also busied herself with all the details of hospitality, but grudgingly and with complaint.
Am I a cheerful or
a grudging giver?
Religious/Youth Formation & Ministry News
YOUTH, GRADES 7 TO 12
WE WILL MISS FR. NICK REINA: Fr. Nick Reina of Salesian HS, will preside one last youth Mass here, today July 21 at 5:30 pm. He will moving on to minister to the Salesian community in Southern California. We have been blessed to have him lead us in worship at 5:30 pm youth Masses. He has supported many of the local parish communities, including St. Joseph. We wish Fr. Nick many blessings, gratitude and all the best in his new adventure!2013-2014 CONFIRMATION ENROLLMENT (2nd year): For high school students who have met all the first year requirements in a parish Youth Ministry program for grades 9-12, or who did not complete the second year of Confirmation Preparation, or who missed their Enrollment appointment in June, and would like to prepare for the sacrament now, please call Teena Posas as soon as possible to obtain enrollment packets and to schedule an enrollment appointment, call 741-4900 ext. 210.
NOTE: To enroll a high school aged child in the Confirmation Preparation program, please refer to the information for grades 1 to 12.
EMMAUS PEER MINISTRY RETREAT: If you missed the July 17 meeting, your retreat fee and permission slip must be turned in before Wednesday, July 24. The Emmaus retreat weekend is Friday, July 26 to Sunday, July 28 in Lafayette. Since the retreat is a time of building community, cohesiveness and cooperation among our group, we expect all incoming and returning Peer Ministers to attend retreat.
RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION OF ADULTS
Anyone wanting to inquire about becoming a Catholic or finishing the Rites of Initiation (Eucharist and Confirmation), please contact RoseMary Moore at 510-741-4900 ext. 204. The program will start in September.
FAITH FORMATION VOLUNTEERS
Do you enjoy sharing your faith with others? Would you like to help the children and young people of our Parish grow closer to God? We are looking for volunteers to serve as teachers, aides and traffic helpers for our faith formation program in 2013 -2014. For more information, contact RoseMary Moore, Director of Religious Education at 741-4900 ext. 204.
2013-2014 FAITH FORMATION ENROLLMENT; GRADES 1 TO 12
It is time to enroll for Faith Formation for 2013-2014! Our program provides religious instruction and spiritual formation, and if needed, sacramental preparation for children in grades 1-12. The primary goal is to help children develop a relationship with God that will support, sustain, challenge and nourish them throughout their entire lives. Our program consists of weekly classroom sessions, seasonal celebrations, and special activities.
We encourage parents to continue to enroll children in Faith Formation classes even if they have received First Communion. Classes are for every grade every year—just like in school grades when children advance each year. Keeping your child in Faith Formation will make them better prepared for their high school years in Confirmation.
Faith Formation classes meet on the following days and times Grades 1-6: Tuesdays from 6:30 to 7:45 pm (English) OR
Tuesdays from 6:30 to 7:45 pm (Spanish) OR Wednesdays from 6:30 to 7:45 pm (English) Grades 1-3: Wednesdays from 4:45 to 6:00 pm (English) Grades 7-8: Wednesdays from 6:30 to 7:45 pm (English) Grades 9-12: Mondays from 6:30 to 8:30 pm (English)
Information and forms are available in the church entrances, at www.sjcpinole.org or at the Parish Center. Questions regarding grades 1 to 6, or Sacrament Preparation for these grades, please call 741-4900 and ask for RoseMary Moore. Questions regarding grade 7 to high school, or Sacrament Preparation for these grades, please call Teena Posas at 741-4900 ext. 210. Enroll your children now; we will be charging late fees after August 9.
HELP NEEDED, High School & College Students
We invite students, grades 9-12 or in college, to consider joining our team of leaders for our Middle School Ministry class of 7th & 8th graders. Classes begin in September, and are on Wednesdays 6:30-7:45 pm. In a fun, faith-filled atmosphere, leaders will help facilitate small group conversations, textbook work or community building tasks. The online diocesan Safe Environment for Children training must be fulfilled. The online diocesan Safe Environment for Children Training must be fulfilled. For information: Teena Posas at 741-4900 ext. 210.CHILDREN’S LITURGY OF THE WORD
Children’s Liturgy of the Word is every Sunday at the 10:30 am Mass. We look forward to having your children join us this Sunday.This Ministry is looking for volunteers, if you are interested, please call the Parish Center.
Ministry Programs and Events
ST. JOSEPH SENIORS
AUGUST
Seniors’ Luau Luncheon
Hula dancers, Don Ho music, and
Hawaiian food...the island paradise is
coming to the Pinole Senior Center and
St. Joseph Seniors will join in the fun!
All are welcome!
Date
:
Thursday, August 15
We will not have a Seniors’ Mass on that
Holy Day of Obligation. We will meet for
lunch at the Pinole Senior Center.
Cost
:
$7, and tickets are selling out fast!
Buy them now at the Pinole Senior Center
and enjoy the festivities. Don’t forget to
wear Hawaiian attire.
Pull Tab Donations Are Back!
Please check the front and back bulletin boards in the church for lists of items needed for Oktoberfest. They fall into these three categories; Pantry, Food, and Drink Items. This is one way everyone can contribute to Oktoberfest. Pull a tab, go shopping and bring your item to the Parish Center during business hours. We thank you in advance for taking the time to make these contributions.
—Your grateful Oktoberfest Team. Featured Booths this weekend:
PHOTO BOOTH
The Oktoberfest Photo Booth has been in existence since 2004. It was started by parishioner James Lindgren and Ricky Delos Reyes. Ricky has chaired the event alone since 2005 but added co-chairperson David Salvador in 2011 when he took on the core team position of Non-Food Chairperson. The booth has gone from photos with a fixed background of an American flag to the green screen type of photography allowing many background choices. From that time on the booth has become really grown in popularity. The prices are still set at $3.00 per copy for a 4x6 photo. It does not matter if the photo includes one person or many persons the price remains the same. Ricky and David provide many “dress-up” items like crazy glasses, hats, feather boas, etc., if patrons want to dress up and be silly. This year is a very special year for the Photo Booth; not only is it the 35th year anniversary of the Oktoberfest, it is also the 50th year anniversary of St. Joseph School. There are many families who come by every year for their Oktoberfest memory photo; if you have never done this, let this year be the beginning an Oktoberfest scrapbook of you and your family. Have fun and enjoy the day! Pose! Pose! Pose!
October 5 & 6
35th OKTOBERFEST 2013
PANCAKE BREAKFAST
The Boy Scouts and their leader Rich Kral have been providing this delicious Oktoberfest Breakfast for the past twenty years. If you get up on Oktoberfest Sunday morning and want get an early start attend one of the two early masses and head over to the St. Joseph School Gym for a great meal. Oktoberfest breakfast will be served from 8:00 to 10:30 am on Sunday, October 6.
The menu this year is: Scrambled eggs, sausage, pancakes, peaches, and your choice of the following drinks; coffee, assorted teas, orange juice, hot chocolate, and milk. The prices are $4 for 12 and below, and $7 for 13 and up.
Rich says the reason he has spent these 20 years volunteering for this worthwhile event is because Oktoberfest brings the entire community together. He loves that aspect of Oktoberfest and enjoys serving his community in this way. The committee feels blessed to have him and the scouts, and appreciate the example Rich is to the boys he helps mentor. Come fill your tummy with hearty breakfast and then head out for some fun!
Next week we will feature: The Sweet Shop,
and returning after several years away; The Plant Booth. ARE YOU READY FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM?
STILL WAITING TO APPLY FOR DACA? ARE YOU A PERMANENT RESIDENT WHO
WANTS TO BECOME A U.S. CITIZEN? On Sunday, July 28, local immigration and citizenship legal service organizations will be hosting an immigration forum at Saint Bernard’s Church, 1620 62nd Avenue in Oakland, CA.
The highlight of the day will be a multi-lingual presentation from Catholic Charities of the East Bay legal staff on the realities and myths of reform. The East Bay Naturalization and Bay Area DACA legal service organizations will be providing free legal consultations and application assistance for low income applicants of citizenship and DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival). Referrals to community legal service agencies and attorneys will also be provided. People who want application assistance with citizenship or DACA should call (510) 768-3137 to register.
CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
THE FIRST COMMANDMENT - Part 2
You shall worship the Lord your God
and Him only shall you serve.
(Lk 4:8; Deut 6:13)2095 The theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity inform and give life to the moral virtues. Thus charity leads us to render to God what we as creatures owe him in all justice. The virtue of religion disposes us to have this attitude.
2096 Adoration is the first act of the virtue of religion. To adore God is to acknowledge him as God, as the Creator and Savior, the Lord and Master of everything that exists, as infinite and merciful Love.
2098 The acts of faith, hope, and charity enjoined by the first commandment are accomplished in prayer. Lifting up the mind toward God is an expression of our adoration of God... Prayer is an indispensable condition for being able to obey God’s commandments.
2099 It is right to offer sacrifice to God as a sign of adoration and gratitude, supplication and communion: “Every action done so as to cling to God in communion of holiness, and thus achieve blessedness, is a true sacrifice.”
2100 Outward sacrifice, to be genuine, must be the expression of spiritual sacrifice: “The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit...” (Ps 51:17 )
2101 In many circumstances, the Christian is called to make promises to God. Baptism and Confirmation, Matrimony and Holy Orders always entail promises. Out of personal devotion, the Christian may also promise to God: prayer, alms-giving, pilgrimage...
2102 “A vow is a deliberate and free promise made to God concerning a possible and better good which must be fulfilled by reason of the virtue of religion. A vow is an act of devotion in which the Christian dedicates himself to God or promises him some good work” (Acts 18:18; 21:23-24)
2103 ...The Church can, in certain cases and for
proportionate reasons, dispense from vows and promises.
2105 ...The social duty of Christians is to respect and awaken in each man the love of the true and the good. It requires them to make known the worship of the one true religion which subsists in the Catholic and apostolic Church. “Christians are called to be the light of the world.”
2106 “Nobody may be forced to act against his convictions, nor is anyone to be restrained from acting in accordance with his conscience in religious matters in private or in public...
Faithful Stewardship
The beautiful altar flowers this weekend were offered in in honor of:
Vilma & Tony Jacob
Happy 39th Wedding Anniversary!
NOTICE
:
The DVD, Mary the Mother of God (IID),is missing from the Parish Center Library. To whoever last borrowed it, kindly return it. Thank you.
Monday: Gn 28:10-22a; Ps 91:1-4, 14-15ab; Mt 9:18-26 Tuesday: Gn 32:23-33; Ps 17:1b, 2-3, 6-7ab, 8b, 15; Mt 9:32-38 Wednesday: Gn 41:55-57; 42:5-7a, 17-24a; Ps 33:2-3, 10-11, 18-19; Mt 10:1-7 Thursday: Gn 44:18-21, 23b-29; 45:1-5; Ps 105:16-21; Mt 10:7-15
DAILY READINGS (Cycle 2)
July 22-28
Friday: Gn 46:1-7, 28-30; Ps 37:3-4, 18-19, 27-28, 39-40; Mt 10:16-23 Saturday: Gn 49:29-32; 50:15-26a; Ps 105:1-4, 6-7; Mt 10:24-33 Sunday: Dt 30:10-14; Ps 69:14, 17, 30-31, 33-34, 36, 37; Lk 10:25-37Sunday, July 14
Plate/Mailed-in: $11,401.03 EFT: $ 4,062.00 Total: $15,462.03 Religious/Youth Formation: $ 3,573.00Thank you for your generous contributions.
HATS, HATS & MORE HATS!
Dinner, Dance, Raffleand Prizes! The most original and most creative hat awards. “SUMMER JAM!” on Saturday, July 27 at St. Patrick Church, Rodeo. Cost: $35 (no host bar). For tickets or information: Lisa 685-3118.
Why form or join a Divine Mercy Cenacle?
August 3, 2013 Saturday, 9-00 AM-1:00 PMSt. James the Apostle Catholic Church, 34700 Fremont Blvd., Fremont Guest Speaker: Dr. Bryan Thatcher,
Author of the Cenacle Formation Manuals
Mass at 8:30 AM, Registration 9-9:30 AM $10 Donation for the speaker, lunch and snack. The Diocese of Oakland Divine Mercy Apostolate and Ministry and the Divine Mercy Apostolate of Saint James the Apostle Parish invite you to listen to God’s call to trust more in Jesus.
Contact: Linda Cabangangan 673-8416, Marie Rapp 378 -0903, Teddie Malimban 386-5015, Elmie Shahab 396-1105. Info & updates: divinemercyoakland.org or call Fr. Carl Arcosa at 925-682-5447.
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