St. Felicitas Catholic Church
1662 Manor Blvd. San Leandro Email: stfelicitaschurch@comcast.net
Telephone Number (510) 351-5244 ● Fax (510) 351-5730 www.stfelicitassl.org
TWENTY-SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
OCTOBER 2, 2016 Mass Schedule
Sunday 7:30 am - 9:00 am - 10:30 am 12:30 pm (Spanish) 4:30 pm (Vietnamese) Saturday 8:15 am - 4:30 pm (Vigil) Daily (Monday to Fr iday) 7:00 am - 8:15 am Holy Days 7:00 am 8:15 am 7:00 pm 1st Friday Exposition – St. Joseph’s Chapel
12:30 to 4:45 pm Sacraments
Reconciliation—Saturday, 3:15 p.m.- 4:00 p.m. or by appointment.
Baptism—4th Sunday of every month at 2:30 p.m.
Contact Parish Office for information Marriage—Arrangements to be made 6 months
prior to the wedding.
Mass of Anointing of the Sick—First Saturday of the month at 10:30 a.m.
Parish Staff
Rev. Thomas Khue Parochial Administrator
Ext. 286
Rev. Eddie Castañas Parochial Vicar
Ext. 297
Deacon Timothy Myers
timothykentmyers@gmail.com Mercey Zamora Pastoral Assoc./Spanish Ministry
347-1293 Sr. Mary Anh Cong (LHC) Liturgical Ministries
Vietnamese Community
Altar Servers
347-1283 Sr. Elizabeth Huynh (LHC) Pastoral Care
347-1287
Sharon Clancey Office Secretary 351-5244 Judi Lema Bulletin
351-5244 Convent 351-5577
Parish School
357-2530 1650 Manor Blvd. Fax: 357-5358Meghan Jorgensen Principal
Religious Education Office
Sandi Walton Director of Religious Education 347-1282
Fax: 510-351-5730
stfelicitasccd@comcast.net
Geri Lara Youth Services
326-5693 stfelicitasym@yahoo.com
St. Vincent de Paul 706-1972
Parish Office Hours
Monday - Tuesday 9:00 am to 4:00 pm Wednesday - Thursday 9:00 am to 4:30 pm Friday 9:00 am to 12:30 pm
EMERGENCY NUMBER (510) 309-8097
(During non-office hours)
OCTOBER IS RESPECT LIFE MONTH AND A MONTH OF THE HOLY ROSARY
This month of October, the Church reminds us of the sanctity and dignity of life from its conception to natural death. Our parish joins all the other churches in one chorus, that as Catholics, we are a family of God with a rich heritage that requires each of us to stand firm in our conscience to defend, respect and value LIFE.
The culture of death which has attacked all forms of life in our society must inspire us to seek all the more God’s graces and His light. This month, as it is also dedicated to the Holy Rosary, we lift up all our prayers, joys and afflictions to our merciful God through the intercession of our Blessed Mother Mary. As said, "Since the prayers of the Rosary come from such excellent sources — from Our Lord Himself, from inspired Scripture, and from the Church — it is not surprising that the Rosary is so dear to our Blessed Mother and so powerful with heaven.” In praying the mysteries of the Holy Rosary, let us pray for the RESPECT of LIFE and pray for peace in our society and of the whole world.
Saint Felicitas Parish also joyfully informs you that we will celebrate our second annual celebration of Our Lady of Fatima on October 13
that 6:30 p.m. We will have the celebration of the Holy Mass, pray the Holy Rosary in different languages, serenade the Blessed Mother and offer flowers. A procession will follow from the church to the school gym and there will be a fellowship where we will share different foods from each culture comprising our parish. Everyone is encouraged and welcomed to join us in this blessed and joyful festivity honoring Our Lady of Fatima and invoking her powerful and motherly intercession.
A brief history of Our Lady of Fatima is given below.
A Brief Look at the History of Our Lady of Fatima
Our Blessed Mother appeared to three simple shepherd children six times in 1917 so they could warn the world of upcoming trials and tribulations. The three children were, siblings Jacinta, age 7, and Francisco Marto, age 9, and their cousin Lucia Dos Santos, age 10. The apparition is also referred to as Our Lady of the Rosary (a term first used in 1208 for the reputed apparition in the church of Prouille), because the children said the apparition called herself the "Lady of the Rosary".
The events at Fatima gained fame due to elements of secrets, prophecy and eschatology, particularly with regard to World War II and possibly more World Wars in the future. Chief among these is also the alleged urgent need for the Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
The reported apparitions at Fatima were officially declared worthy of belief by the Catholic Church.
In all her appearances at Fatima, the Blessed Mother repeatedly emphasized the necessity of praying the Rosary daily, of wearing the Brown Scapular of Mount Carmel and of performing acts of reparation, sacrifice and conversion of sinners and world peace.
The shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal sees thousands and millions of faithful pilgrims each year. Now more than ever, our world needs the rosary. Pray the rosary daily! As said, “The family that prays together stays together.”
O Most Holy Virgin Mary, Queen of the most holy Rosary, you were pleased to appear to the children of Fatima and reveal a glorious message. We implore you, inspire in our hearts a fervent love for the recitation of the
Rosary. By meditating on the mysteries of the redemption that are recalled therein may we obtain the graces and virtues that we ask, through the merits of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Redeemer. AMEN!”
O U R L A D Y O F F A T I M A , P R A Y F O R U S !
Events for the Week October 2, 2016
TWENTY-SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
October 2, 2016 Second Collection This Week: Maintenance Next Week: The Catholic Voice
Tues.
10/4
3:45 pm Faith Formation School
7:00 pm Spanish Meeting AE Room 6:30 pm R.C.I.A. Meeting SJC 6:30 pm Adult Confirmation SMC 2:30 pm Blessing of the Animals School
Fri
10/7 SJC Chapel
7:00 pm Spanish Children’s Choir Soc. Hall 7:30 pm Vietnamese Exposition, Mass and Confession Church 7:30 pm Vietnamese Choir Practice AE Room 12:30 pm to 4:45 pm—Adoration
Wed.
10/5 7:00 pm Spanish Catechist Mtg. Soc. Hall
7:00 pm Family Choir Practice (10:30) SJ Chapel 7:00 pm Spanish Juvenile Choir AE Room
Thurs.
10/6 7:00 pm Baptism Class SMC
7:00 pm Spanish Youth Group Soc. Hall
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When: October 19th, 2016
Tickets are available at the Parish Office for $6.00 Donations for door prizes would be appreciated.
Sun
10/2 9:15 am Faith Formation K-6 School
Save the Date
Top 10 Reasons to be Catholic
Fr. Mark Wiesner, Pastor of St. Charles Borromeo will be joining the St. Felicitas Parish Community for a Family Faith Education evening.
You don’t want to miss this wonderful opportunity!
Mark your calendar!
Please join us on:
Wednesday, October 12th - 7:00 pm ~ in the church
PLEASE NOTE CHANGE IN DAILY MASS
SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 4th - 6th
There will only be one Mass at 8:15 a.m.
Baptism Class Schedule Change for October The Baptism Class will be on October 6th
at 7:00 p.m. at St Mary’s Center.
Mon 10/3 6:45 pm Faith Formation School
OCTOBER 4, 2016
FEAST OF SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI BLESSING OF ANIMALS
On the occasion of the feast of Saint Francis of Assisi, there will be a blessing of animals.
When: Tuesday, October 4th at 2:30 P.M.
Where: St. Felicitas School playground
All parishioners are encouraged and welcome to bring their pets in order to get this special blessing.
International Rosary:
On Thursday, October 13th at 6:30 p.m. in the church we will conclude our monthly devotion to Our Lady of Fatima with the International Rosary. We will have celebration of the Mass, rosary and procession, offering of flowers, etc.
Please join us as we pray the rosary as a community, process around the church and school grounds and enjoy a reception in the social hall.
Our Lady of Fatima Devotion
Thursday, October 13, 2016
Sun. 10/2 7:30 am Jesus Montoya †
9:00 am Herculano & Patricia da Rocha † 10:30 am Philip Erlwein †
Napoleon A. † 12:30 pm Maria Gallo †
Ortencia y José Prado † Mon. 10/3 7:00 am Clifford Hobbs †
8:15 am Deacon Jose Prado † Tues. 10/4 7:00 am NO MASS
8:15 am Stanley & Ramona Langner † Phero Le †
Wed. 10/5 7:00 am NO MASS 8:15 am Anna Tran †
For the Sick Thurs 10/6 7:00 am NO MASS
8:15 am Francisco Savior Tran † Dee Darbo †
Fri. 10/7 7:00 am Dee Darbo †
8:15 am Kaitlin Clancey (Birthday) Sat. 10/8 8:15 am
4:30 pm Florencio Rabelo † Yit Khuan Behnke † Sun. 10/9 7:30 am Parishioners
9:00 am Helen Minor (50th Birthday) 10:30 am Maria & Albano Teixeira † 12:30 pm Joaquin Castellanos †
L-Living †-Deceased A-Anniversary B-Birthday T-Thanksgiving
Week of October 2, 2016
Do you have a seriously ill family member or friend? If you have the person’s permission, you may request that their name be printed in the bulletin for prayers. Names will be deleted after one month. Call the parish office at 351-5244 to leave the name of the family member who is in need of prayer.
A name posted in dark print was added to the prayer list this week!
Who Entered into Eternal Life Paul Sucatre † — September 26, 2016 let Perpetual Light Shine Upon Him
Joan Allie Lorenzo Altergott Ivan Ayro Lourdes Andrade Harold Barber Ed Braun Alice Camozzi Noel DeSouza Callie Furtado Jeanne Gordillo Connie Guaraglia Mae Heasley Belinda Hernandez Mary Lou Iannarelli Vincent Jacques
Melblena Latorre Irmina Torres Llamas Barbara Maloon
Jack Marshall Clarisse Mascarenah Peggy Miller Peter Luom Nguyen Tim O’Connor Oliver Olimpiada Rita Paiva Theresa Pellini Peter Purificacion Ruben Raygoza Amelia Ramos Dora Romero
Lyndon Cortes Ruffy Jorge Salloman Patricia Salloman Floyd Schexnayder Maryjane Tanner Tomasa Torres Anne Tran Hoai An Tran Thanh Tran Mary Valladon Maria Jesus Vargas Zack Ziegler
FINANCIAL CORNER
Stewardship of September 25th of $424.35 went to the Guide Dogs for the Blind.
Thank you for your continued generosity
VOICE
COLLECTION NEXT SUNDAY
Next weekend is the annual second collection for The Catholic Voice. Your donation helps your parish offset its payments for the important communications ministry. The Voice and its other operations, websites and social media are the only regular source of Catholic news and information for all parishioners in the diocese. Please be generous in your support.Checks should be made payable to the parish.
Our Weekly Goal $ 11,700.00
Sunday Collection —September 25th $ 8,487.00 Amount needed to reach our goal $ 3,213.00
WORKSHOP SCHEDULES
Eucharistic Ministers & Pastoral Care Workshop When: Saturday, October 22nd
Time: 9:00 am to 11:00 am Where: St. Felicitas Church Followed by coffee and sandwiches.
Pope Francis’ Monthly Intention for October Universal: Journalists
That journalists, in carrying out their work, may always be motivated by respect for truth and a strong sense of ethics.
Chúa Nhật 27 Thường Niên Năm C (Lc 17,5-10) Ðối với anh em cũng vậy: khi đã làm tất cả những gì theo lệnh phải làm, thì hãy nói: chúng tôi là những đầy tớ vô dụng, chúng tôi đã chỉ làm việc bổn phận đấy thôi".
(Lc.17,10)
Suy Niệm
Người đầy tớ đi cày hay đi chăn chiên suốt ngày, chiều về, anh còn phải lo cơm nước cho chủ.Anh chỉ được ăn uống nghỉ ngơi khi chủ đã ăn xong. Ðó là chuyện hết sức bình thường và tự nhiên đối với một người làm công được ông chủ mướn, vì anh đã vâng phục mọi lệnh truyền của ông.
Chúng ta có thể là một Kitô hữu đạo đức, có thể đã vất vả phụng sự Chúa suốt đời. Nhưng Thiên Chúa không phải chịu ơn hay mắc nợ chúng ta, và chúng ta không có quyền đòi Ngài phải trả công cho xứng. Khó biết chừng nào khi làm được nhiều điều tốt đẹp mà vẫn giữ tấm lòng khiêm nhu. Những việc đạo đức chúng ta làm có thể khiến chúng ta tự mãn trước Thiên Chúa. Ðó là sa ngã của một số người Pharisêu và đó vẫn là cám dỗ thường xuyên của chúng ta.
Người Pharisêu lên đền thờ cầu nguyện, mà thực ra là khoe công trạng của mình (x. Lc 18,9-14). Công trạng, công đức, công nghiệp có thể thành vật cản khiến tôi chỉ thấy sự thánh thiện của tôi mà không thấy, cũng chẳng cần tình thương của Chúa.
Làm thế nào để chúng ta thật sự khiêm hạ trước Thiên Chúa, trước tha nhân và trước cả lòng mình.
Nhận mình chỉ là đầy tớ bình thường, không gì nổi bật, mình chỉ cố làm tròn bổn phận được giao.
Có nhiều bổn phận ta phải chu toàn:
*Bổn phận của một thụ tạo trước Thiên Chúa Chí Thánh.
*Bổn phận là con cái của Cha trên trời.
*Bổn phận là môn đệ trung tín của Ðức Kitô.
*Bổn phận là anh em của mọi người.
Yêu mến, phụng sự, tôn kính, ca ngợi Thiên Chúa: đó là điều ta chẳng dám tự hào mình đã vuông tròn. Giả như ta có làm được điều gì sáng danh Chúa thì cũng là nhờ ơn Chúa đỡ nâng.Cả một ước muốn tốt lành nơi ta cũng đến từ Chúa.
Thiên đàng không phải là sự trả công của Thiên Chúa.
Ngài không ký hợp đồng với người sống đạo đức. Thiên đàng là một quà tặng bất ngờ, ngỡ ngàng, không do công của tôi, nhưng do lòng tốt của Thiên Chúa. Thiên đàng hạnh phúc vì tôi được gần Chúa hơn bao giờ. Chúng ta không chọn Chúa để được thiên đàng. Chúng ta mong thiên đàng để được gần Chúa.
(Trích Suy Niệm Manna)
Monday: Galatians 1:6-12; Psalm 111:1b-2, 7-9, 10c;
Luke 10:25-37
Tuesday: Galatians 1:13-24; Psalm 139:1b-3, 13-15;
Luke 10:38-42
Wednesday: Galatians 2:1-2, 7-14; Psalm 117:1bc, 2;
Luke 11:1-4
Thursday: Galatians3:1-5; Luke 1:69-75; Luke 11:5-13 Friday: Galatians 3:7-14; Psalm 111:1b-6;
Luke 11:15-26
Saturday: Galatians 3:22-29; Psalm 105:2-7;
Luke 11:27-28
Sunday: 2 Kings 5:14-17; Psalm 98:1-4;
READINGS FOR THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 3, 2016
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Jubilee Year of Mercy — October 2, 2016 Jubilee of Marian Devotion begins next Saturday
“How long, O L ?” (Habakkuk 1:2). With Habakkuk’s question echoing across twenty-six hundred years, Respect Life Sunday finds all life claiming sanctuary in our hearts: unborn infant, senior citizen, immigrant and refugee, imprisoned and addicted, people burdened with illness and disabilities of body, mind, or spirit. Even Earth, Pope Francis notes in Laudato Si’, bears scars of disrespect for the life she nurtures and sustains. Life is still threatened, as in Habakkuk’s day, with ruin and misery, “destruction and violence, . . . strife and clamorous discord” (see 1:3). Since our efforts so often seem ineffective, we “unprofitable servants” cry with the apostles, “Increase our faith” (Luke 17:10, 5).
But Jesus’ reply might be paraphrased, “Not quantity—
quality.” Next weekend marks the Jubilee Y ear of Mercy’s special devotion to Mary, whose willingness to shelter Jesus in her womb and stand at the foot of his cross bears witness to the qualities that Jesus expects our faith to manifest: the willingness to trust, to risk, and to
dare to speak up for life.
Peter Scagnelli, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc.
CONFÍA MENOS EN TI Y MÁS EN DIOS
Muchos programas de doce pasos usan la frase “Confía menos en ti y más en Dios”. En toda su simplicidad, estas cinco palabras son el corazón de las lecturas de hoy. Para personas que luchan con alguna conducta adictiva, estas palabras nos recuerdan de manera categórica que no podemos manejar, controlar ni manipular ciertas áreas de nuestras vidas. ¿Cuántas veces podemos mirar hacia nuestro
pasado y encontrar evidencia de algún plan elaborándose, diferente al nuestro? Estos son los momentos cuando, por cualquier razón, permitimos a alguien superior que nosotros que implemente el
plan. En ese momento, incluso ni nos dimos cuenta de que estábamos dejando ir algo, pero en retrospectiva, vemos las manos y la amorosa presencia de Dios. Es nuestra conciencia de esos momentos lo que nos da el valor y la iniciativa para dejar ir algo más tarde. Son el valor y la iniciativa resaltados en las lecturas de hoy. A esto lo llamamos “fe”.
Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.TRADICIONES DE NUESTRA FE
Desde el siglo XVII, el 2 de octubre la Iglesia ha celebrado la conmemoración de los Santos Ángeles Custodios. Muchos de nosotros conocemos la imagen de un niñito y su hermanita caminando por un puente tembloroso y podrido. Sobre ellos está en vigilante una bella criatura halada, su ángel protector. Esta imagen de seres con alas es una que los cristianos tomamos de los paganos romanos y griegos, ya que bíblicamente hablando la mayor parte de los ángeles no tienen alas.
Últimamente los ángeles se han puesto de moda entre los no cristianos, pero no debemos dejarnos llevar por sus doctrinas new age. Muchos de ellos buscan poner a los ángeles a su propio servicio pidiéndoles dinero, su pareja y otras cosas. Los ángeles no existen para enriquecernos. Más bien hay que saber que los ángeles están para glorificar y servir a Dios y cuidar a los humanos marginados.
Jesús mismo nos dice que hay que cuidarnos de despreciar a los pequeños (gente pobre y oprimida)
“porque les aseguro que sus ángeles en el cielo están constantemente en presencia de mi Padre celestial” (Mateo 18:10-11).
—Fray Gilberto Cavazos-Glz, OFM, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.VISIÓN Y TRABAJO Visión sin trabajo es un sueño;
Trabajo sin visión es monotonía;
Visión con trabajo es un amanecer Nueva esperanza y un nuevo día.
—Anónimo
