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1 Do everything for the glory of God; be imitators of Christ ( 1 Corinthians 10:31 11:1 ) Sunday February 15, 2015 Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

The Most Reverend Michael C. Barber, SJ - Bishop of Oakland CATHEDRAL PARISH STAFF Sunday Liturgies Rector Faith Formation Rev.

org Parochial Vicar Director of Music 8:00 AM - Vietnamese Rev.

org Fax: (510) 628 2180 Saturday 5:30 PM - Vigil Sunday 12:00 English/Tagalog rdevos@oakdiocese.

Schexnayder (retired) Bookkeeper Nilda Flores Permanent Deacons (510) 496-7203 7:10 AM English Deacon Rey C.

com Tuesday Administrative Assistant Deacon Peter Cuong Dac Ta Monica Salcedo tadacfamily@gmail.

Benediction and Mass - Vietnamese Saturday 7:30 AM - Vietnamese Confessions Monday - Friday 11:30-12:00 PM Saturday Deacon Jorge Angel

2 The Most Reverend Michael C. Barber, SJ - Bishop of Oakland CATHEDRAL PARISH STAFF Sunday Liturgies Rector Faith Formation Rev. James Matthews Sr. Kim-Trong Nguyen, SSND (510) (510) jmatthews@oakdiocese.org knguyen@oakdiocese.org Parochial Vicar Director of Music 8:00 AM - Vietnamese Rev. Joseph Nguyen Rudy de Vos 10:00 AM - Stational (510) Tel: (510) jnguyen@oakdiocese.org Fax: (510) Saturday 5:30 PM - Vigil Sunday 12:00 English/Tagalog rdevos@oakdiocese.org 2:00 PM - Spanish Priests in Residence Daily Liturgies Monday - Friday Rev. James A. Schexnayder (retired) Bookkeeper Nilda Flores Permanent Deacons (510) :10 AM English Deacon Rey C. Encarnacion nflores@oakdiocese.org 12:10 PM English rey@ebmud.com Tuesday Administrative Assistant Deacon Peter Cuong Dac Ta Monica Salcedo tadacfamily@gmail.com (510) :30 PM - Spanish Thursday 5:30 PM Spanish First Friday Adoration / Benediction 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM 7:00 PM Benediction and Mass - Vietnamese Saturday 7:30 AM - Vietnamese Confessions Monday - Friday 11:30-12:00 PM Saturday Deacon Jorge Angel msalcedo@oakdiocese.org angel881@pacbell.net Receptionist Jo Ann Ortiz (510) cpctl@oakdiocese.org Deacon Eugene Stelly, Sr. LOST AND FOUND PARISH OFFICE: ST. VINCENT DE PAUL CONFERENCE (510) Harrison Str ee t, Suite 1 30 Oakland CA Main reception (510) ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY David Arbogast shdmstrdarbo@gmail.com Parish cpctl@oakdiocese.org Fax (510) KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Robert Fournier, Grand Knight 4:30-5:00 PM 2 Hours: Monday Friday : 9:00 am to 4:00 pm

It is a joy to be a part of the family of The Cathedral of Christ the Light.

cities within Alameda and Contra Costa counties.

May your visit draw you more deeply into the radiance of Christ s light, and may you feel at home in His presence.

3 It is a joy to be a part of the family of The Cathedral of Christ the Light. As a community of faith, made up of people and cultures that enrich our diocese, we strive to be a vibrant sign of God s presence in the city of Oakland and all the cities within Alameda and Contra Costa counties. Our cathedral was built for the greater glory and honor of God so that all people may experience the loving embrace of God. May your visit draw you more deeply into the radiance of Christ s light, and may you feel at home in His presence. Reverend Jay Matthews Rector Follow us on Facebook & Twitter: Facebook.com/ctlcathedral.org Twitter.com/oakcathedral Facebook.com/ctlcathedral (events only) Visit our Cathedral web page to hear a live podcast of Fr. Jay s Homily from last Sunday! Twillter.com/oakdiocese Facebook.com/Oakdiocese ASH WEDNESDAY MASS TIMES Wednesday, February 18, :10 am - English 10:00 am - English 12:10 pm - English 6:00 pm - Vietnamese 8:00 pm - Spanish 3

Eucharistic Holy Hour Adoration and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament All are invited to join in this special time of prayer before the Blessed

CATHEDRAL PARISH HOMEBOUND MINISTRY Dedicated to serving those who are permanently or temporarily unable to attend Mass to receive Holy Communion and

To register as a recipient or if you know someone in need, please contact the Parish Office: (510) 832-5057 BAPTISM INFORMATION The Rite of Baptism is

fourth Saturday of every month. Classes are held in English, Spanish, and Vietnamese from 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm.

4 Eucharistic Holy Hour Adoration and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament All are invited to join in this special time of prayer before the Blessed Sacrament. Take some time out of your busy work week to be with our Lord in our beautiful Cathedral. CATHEDRAL PARISH HOMEBOUND MINISTRY Dedicated to serving those who are permanently or temporarily unable to attend Mass to receive Holy Communion and are living the Cathedral Parish area. To register as a recipient or if you know someone in need, please contact the Parish Office: (510) BAPTISM INFORMATION The Rite of Baptism is performed on the first three Sundays of every month: 1st Sunday: Vietnamese 2nd Sunday: English 3rd Sunday: Spanish Baptism classes are held on the fourth Saturday of every month. Classes are held in English, Spanish, and Vietnamese from 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm. For additional information or to register, please call (510) WEDDING INFORMATION Thank you for considering the Cathedral of Christ the Light as part of your wedding. For more information on Cathedral weddings or to obtain a wedding form online, please visit the Cathedral of Christ the Light webpage: For additional questions please call the Parish Office (510) EMMAUS Emmaus meets mid-week for faith-sharing based on the Sunday Mass readings. The group meets most Wednesdays from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm in the San Luis Lorenzo Ruiz classroom. For more information or to join, please contact : Damian Smyth at smythdamian71@ gmail.com Coming Soon: Emmaus will be available online at Your baptism request should be at least 1 month in advance of your preferred date. Pictured to the right: On the Emmaus road: a Romanesque relief in the monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos, Burgos, in Spain. 4

5 MINISTRIES Let a man so account of us, as of ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. 1 Corinthians 4:1-2 If you feel called to any of our ministries, please pray about them, then respond to the ones to which you believe you have been called by God. Please refer to the Parish Registration and Liturgical Ministry Sign-up form on page 10. Holy Communion Ministry Children s Liturgy of the Word Art & Environment Cathedral Parish Homebound Ministry (see page 4) Emmaus (see page 4) Hospitality After Mass Acolytes (Altar Servers) Parish Movie Night (see above) Greeters Ushers Lectors Choir Ministry For additional information on any of these or other Parish Ministries, please call the Cathedral Parish Office (510) Each of us as individuals is blessed with God-given talents. Through using our talents in the service of our parish community, we give glory and honor to Him. We invite you to join us in participating in one or more parish ministries. The more generous we are in sharing On April 25, 2015, Oakland will participate in a 5k Hunger Walk around Lake Merritt to raise funds to end hunger in our community and globally If you feel called to learn more about The Crop Hunger Walk Please contact: Joan Suflita : jsuflita@gmail.com (510) photographs courtesy of Kent Phung 5

6 MASS INTENTIONS Saturday, February 14th SAINTS CYRIL & METHODIUS Saint Valentine s Day 5:30 Rizalina Babe & Manuel F. Concepcion + Sunday, February 15th Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time 8:00 Renato H. Rosal, Sr. + 10:00 For The People 12:00 Elma, Mary, & Geraldine (birthdays) 2:00 Dennis Lee + Monday, February 16th (President s Day) 10:00 For the People Tuesday, February 17th The Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order 7:10 Daniel Chae+ 12:10 William H. McInerney + 5:30 Benjamin Pereda + Wednesday, February 18th ASH WEDNESDAY 7:10 Nguyen Thi Sam + 10:00 For the People 12:10 Rodolfo Dimayuga Karaan, Jr. + 6:00 Tristan & Rey Kintanar (birthday) 8:00 - Thursday, February 19th 7:10 Nguyen Thi Sam + 12:10 Hood Soo Khoo + 5:30 Lim Sin Khoon + Friday, February 20th 7:10 Dom De Bonis + 12:10 Wencesloa Nipay, Jr. + Saturday, February 21st Saints Cyril and Methodus Saint Valentines Day 7:30 John Pascuzzi + TODAY S READINGS First Reading The leper will dwell apart, making an abode outside the camp (Leviticus 13:1-2, 44-46). Psalm I turn to you, Lord, in time of trouble, and you fill me with the joy of salvation (Psalm 32). Second Reading Do everything for the glory of God; be imitators of Christ (1 Corinthians 10:31 11:1). Gospel The leprosy left him immediately, and he was made clean (Mark 1:40-45). The English translation of the Psalm Responses from the Lectionary for Mass 1969, 1981, 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved. READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Gn 4:1-15, 25; Ps 50:1, 8, 16bc-17, 20-21; Mk 8:11-13 Tuesday: Gn 6:5-8; 7:1-5, 10; Ps 29:1a, 2, 3ac-4, 3b, 9c-10; Mk 8:14-21 Wednesday: Jl 2:12-18; Ps 51:3-6ab, 12-14, 17; 2 Cor 5:20 6:2; Mt 6:1-6, Thursday: Dt 30:15-20; Ps 1:1-4, 6; Lk 9:22-25 Friday: Is 58:1-9a; Ps 51:3-6ab, 18-19; Mt 9:14-15 Saturday: Is 58:9b-14; Ps 86:1-6; Lk 5:27-32 Sunday: Gn 9:8-15; Ps 25:4-9; 1 Pt 3:18-22; Mk 1:12-15 COLLECTION INFORMATION: Thank you for your kind generosity and support! UPCOMING SECOND & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Feb. 18 Ash Wednesday Feb. 22 Easter Flowers Mar. 1 Parish Ministries Mar. 8 Easter Flowers COMPASSION AND GENEROSITY Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse. George Washington 6

W E P R A Y F O R Ritchie Legaspi Edward Gabato Esther Cendejas Teresa Cendejas Cardenas The Peña Family David Julian Topete & Family Esther Avalos Eve Galka Juanita Estrellas Fr.

7 W E P R A Y F O R Ritchie Legaspi Edward Gabato Esther Cendejas Teresa Cendejas Cardenas The Peña Family David Julian Topete & Family Esther Avalos Eve Galka Juanita Estrellas Fr. Herman Leong Juan Sosa Irene Sosa Eternal rest grant unto them O Lord Doris DuBois Thai Nguyen Erika Legaspi David Peshek Fr. Jose Arong David Peshek Joel Angel Sr. Barbara Larner Jeff Flier FOR THE GLORY OF GOD The entire history of the Jewish people is directed toward one goal: that God might be glorified through the chosen people. Christians, too, are called to do everything for the glory of God. In today s scriptures Paul reminds us that the best way for us to glorify God is to seek to benefit the many, as Christ did when he shed his blood for all of humankind. The reading from Leviticus explains one way the Jews sought to benefit the many, by keeping lepers and leprosy away from the chosen people. Jesus finds a better way. He cures the leper, who immediately re-enters the community to spread the good news about Jesus to everyone who will listen. In this way both Jesus and the leper fulfill their calling to glorify the God who fills us with the joy of salvation. Copyright J. S. Paluch Co. TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION Lent, the Church s annual pre-baptismal retreat, prepares us to gather around the Easter font, renew our baptismal vows, and receive new life from the water as the elect are plunged into Christ s death and resurrection. This core meaning is more or less available, depending on whether we journey with catechumens in the parish and on the vigor of our liturgical celebration of the Triduum. Some persist in seeing Lent as a lonely journey in the wilderness; yet this week we enter the Lenten fast in solidarity with one another. The smudged foreheads you will spy throughout Ash Wednesday on buses, street corners, and supermarket aisles remind you that you are hardly alone in your desire to enact a spring cleaning regime for your spiritual life. Long ago, this kind of repentance was available to Christians only once. Ashes and sackcloth were not raiment for a day, but permanent habits for public sinners. Fasting became a way of life, and if they sinned severely again, there was no hope of restored communion. Happily, this system did not endure. It produced reluctant Christians who even held back from baptism, like St. Augustine did, out of fear. Today we have recovered an ancient tradition that conversion and repentance are constant themes on life s journey, and that Lent is an annual opportunity to revive our baptismal identity, both as individuals and communities. Rev. James Field, Copyright J. S. Paluch Co. 7

A REFLECTION ON LENTEN FASTING by Rev. Daniel Merz, Associate Director, USCCB Secretariat of Divine Worship In the early Church and, to a lesser extent still today, there were two fasts.

The second fast was a fast of abstinence from certain foods, e.g., meats or fats. This was more an act of self-discipline and selfcontrol.

8 A REFLECTION ON LENTEN FASTING by Rev. Daniel Merz, Associate Director, USCCB Secretariat of Divine Worship In the early Church and, to a lesser extent still today, there were two fasts. There was the "total fast" that preceded all major feasts or sacramental events. The ancient name for this fast was "statio" from the verb "sto, stare" to stand watch, on guard or in vigil. The second fast was a fast of abstinence from certain foods, e.g., meats or fats. This was more an act of self-discipline and selfcontrol. The statio fast was total and a means of watching and waiting i.e. for something. The fast of abstinence was more general and personal, to help oneself be more disciplined or self-controlled. The total fast is still kept today prior to reception of Holy Communion. Following Holy Communion, the total fast ceases because Jesus had explicitly stated that we don't fast when the bridegroom is here, in other words, what we're keeping vigil for has arrived, the wait is over. On the other hand, the fast of abstinence was allowed on Sundays because the continuity of abstinence can be important for it to be effective. These initial observations, then, teach us that the Eucharist is always the end of a preparation. It is always the fulfillment of an expectation. In the Orthodox Church during Lent, they have Eucharist only on Saturday and Sunday. But because Wednesdays and Fridays are total fast days, those two days are also days for the Communion service (Liturgy of the PreSanctified) which are held in the evening, i.e., after the day of preparation. Fasting is always preparatory. But how did fasting become such an important means of preparing for the Eucharist and of learning virtue through self-discipline? Christian fasting is revealed in an interdependence between two events in the Bible:the "breaking of the fast" by Adam and Eve, and the keeping of the fast, by Christ at the beginning of his ministry Humanity's "Fall" away from God and into sin began with eating. God had proclaimed a fast from the fruit of only one tree, the tree of knowledge of good and evil (Gen. 2:17), and Adam and Eve broke it. Fasting is here connected with the very mystery of life and death, of salvation and damnation. Food perpetuates life in this physical world, which is subject to decay and death. But God "created no death." (Wis. 1:13) Humanity, in Adam and Eve, rejected a life dependent on God alone for one that was dependent rather on "bread alone." (Dt. 8:3; Mt. 4:4; Lk. 4:4) The whole world was given to man as a kind of food, as a means to life, but "life" is meant as communion with God, not as food. ("Their god is their belly." Phil. 3:19) The tragedy is not so much that Adam ate food, but that he ate the food for its own sake, "apart" from God and to be independent of Him. Believing that food had life in itself and thus he could be "like God." And he put his faith in food. This kind of existence seems to be built on the principle that man does indeed live "by bread alone." 8

Christ, however, is the new Adam. At the beginning of his ministry in the Gospel of Matthew, we read, "When He had fasted 40 days and 40 nights, He became hungry.

" Satan tempted both Adam and Christ, saying: Eat, for your hunger is proof that you depend entirely on food, that your life is in food. Adam believed and ate.

9 Christ, however, is the new Adam. At the beginning of his ministry in the Gospel of Matthew, we read, "When He had fasted 40 days and 40 nights, He became hungry." Hunger is that state in which we realize our dependence on something else when we face the ultimate question: "on what does my life depend?" Satan tempted both Adam and Christ, saying: Eat, for your hunger is proof that you depend entirely on food, that your life is in food. Adam believed and ate. Christ said, "Man does NOT live by bread alone." (Mt. 4:4; Lk. 4:4) This liberates us from total dependence on food, on matter, on the world. Thus, for the Christian, fasting is the only means by which man recovers his true spiritual nature.in order for fasting to be effective, then, the spirit must be a part of it. Christian fasting is not concerned with losing weight. It is a matter of prayer and the spirit. And because of that, because it is truly a place of the spirit, true fasting may well lead to temptation, and weakness and doubt and irritation.in other words, it will be a real fight between good and evil, and very likely we shall fail many times in these battles. But the very discovery of the Christian life as "fight" and "effort" is an essential aspect of fasting. Christian tradition can name at least seven reasons for fasting: 1. From the beginning, God commanded some fasting, and sin entered into the world because Adam and Eve broke the fast. 2. For the Christian, fasting is ultimately about fasting from sin. 3. Fasting reveals our dependence on God and not the resources of this world. 4. Fasting is an ancient way of preparing for the Eucharist the truest of foods. 5. Fasting is preparation for baptism (and all the sacraments) for the reception of grace. 6. Fasting is a means of saving resources to give to the poor. 7. Fasting is a means of self-discipline, chastity, and the restraining of the appetites. This article draws in part on the writings of Alexander Schmemann, "Notes in Liturgical Theology," St. Vladimir's Seminary Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 1, Winter 1959, pp

10 PARISH REGISTRATION AND LITURGICAL MINISTRY SIGN-UP To Register as a parishioner, place completed form in the collection basket, , fax, or bring in person to the Cathedral Parish Office. We are open Monday through Friday from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm THE CATHEDRAL SHOP Located on the Cathedral Plaza Daily: 10:00AM - 4:00PM Call for special event hours (510) giftshop@ctlcathedral.org CATHEDRAL EVENTS CENTER Available for your Wedding, Baptism and other post ceremony receptions, meetings, banquets, lunch before or after group tours. Vast menu options, Event Center capacity: 10 minimum to 500 maximum Call: (510) THE ORDER OF MALTA OAKLAND CLINIC Monday and Wednesday 9:00AM - 4:00PM Friday 9:00AM - 12:00PM Please call: (510) CATHEDRAL MAUSOLEUM A unique opportunity to be part of the Cathedral. Available to all of the Catholic Community. For information contact Eric Karleskind (510) erick@cfcsoakland.org TOURS OF THE CATHEDRAL Free guided tours of the Cathedral for individuals are available weekdays at 1:00PM For more information on group tours please call: Denise Kogler, Office of Cathedral Ministries (510) Harrison Street, Suite 130 Oakland, CA (510) (510) fax cpctl@oakdiocese.org NAME: ADDRESS PHONE I am interested in assisting with the Cathedral Parish in the following way(s): I am interested in becoming a parishioner at the Cathedral of Christ the Light Acolyte/Altar Service Altar Society Art & Environment Committee Catechist Choir Greeter/Usher Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion Ministers to the Homebound Hospitality after Mass Lector Knights of Columbus St. Vincent de Paul Society Special Events The weekend Mass I will usually attend: Saturday Sunday 5:30 PM 8:00 AM 12:00 PM 10:00 AM 2:00 PM 10

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