JULY 23, 2017 THE 16TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

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1 Priests & Clergy Rev. Msgr. Robert J. Gallagher, Pastor Rev. Jeff Baker, Associate Pastor Rev. John (Allwyn) Susaimanickam, Associate Pastor Cardinal Roger Mahony, Archbishop Emeritus, In Residence Rev. Msgr. Peter Nugent, Retired Rev. Steve Davoren, In Residence Senior Deacon Walter Hanson Deacon Ryan Adams Deacon Louis Roche, Jr. LITURGICAL CELEBRATIONS Sunday Mass Vigil - 5:00 pm Saturday 7:15 am, 8:30 am 10:00 am (Adult Choir), 11:30 am 1:00 pm (Contemporary Choir) 3:00 pm (Spanish Mass) 5:00 pm (Contemporary Choir) Weekday Mass Mon. - Fri. 7:30 am & 12:05 pm Saturday 7:30 am Holy Days of Obligation Vigil - 5:00 pm 7:30, 8:45, 12:05 & 7:30 pm Sacrament of Reconciliation Saturday 8-8:30 am & 3:30-4:30 pm Thursdays before First Fridays and the Eves of Holy Days 3:30-4:30 pm JULY 23, 2017 THE 16TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME A Catholic Parish Community Moorpark Street (Moorpark St. & Lankershim Blvd.) North Hollywood, CA TEL FAX

2 Page Two St. Charles Borromeo Church 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time Parish Ministries, Sacraments, & Formation ALTAR SERVERS Coordinator: Father Jeff Baker ANNULMENT ASSISTANCE Mrs. Helen Gulliver & Mrs. Rita Haeusler ANOINTING OF THE SICK Available upon request in the event of a serious illness, or medical emergency. Any hour, day or night. BAPTISM For St. Charles parishioners only. English and en Español. By appointment: Sundays, 2:00 pm Preparation classes required for parents and godparents BEREAVEMENT MINISTRY BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP Meets 2nd and 4th Wednesdays, 7:00 pm, Parish Center Mrs. Clare Darden CATHOLIC MORTUARIES & CEMETERIES FUNERAL PLANNING Daisy Mejia CONFIRMATION Ms. Karla Ibarra, Coordinator ext. 309 EXTRAORDINARY MINISTRY Lisa Castleton lisa_castleton@hotmail.com TO THE SICK AND HOMEBOUND Mrs. Mary Genova HIGH SCHOOL YOUTH GROUP - THE WAY Matthew Arias Karla Ibarra thewaystcharles@gmail.com LECTORS Ms. Terry Ruiz, therooz1@aol.com LITURGY AND MUSIC Mr. James Drollinger, Director ext. 315 MARRIAGE For St. Charles parishioners only. Contact the priest at the Parish Center Office at least six months prior to the proposed date. One year is suggested. WEDDING COORDINATION Mrs. Gretchen Schreck MARRIAGE PREPARATION, FOCCUS Dr. Liz Carr NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING Mr. & Mrs. Aaron & Michele Kezele Sign up for classes at TROUBLED MARRIAGES, RETROUVAILLE Mr. and Mrs. Richard & Esther Stewart Website sponsored by the USCCB: RECONCILIATION (CONFESSION) Saturdays: 8-8:30 am, 3:30-4:30 pm Thursdays before 1st Fridays, Eves of Holy Days: 3:30-4:30 pm RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Office Hours Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri: 9:30 am - 3:00 pm Mrs. Jeannie Essa, Director Ms. Susan Jakel, Elementary Coordinator Ms. Diane Skwarek, Pre-School Coordinator Ms. Linda Patino, Secretary RESPECT LIFE MINISTRY The Option Line is available for pregnancy, or post-abortion counseling & resources, 24 hours a day: HELP(4357) Pregnancy Counseling Center of Mission Hills : RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION OF ADULTS (RCIA) Mr. John D. Genova jeopardy1984@yahoo.com Ms. Debra Burley st_charles_rcia@yahoo.com SACRISTANS Mr. James Surtees, Head Sacristan stcharlesservers@yahoo.com ST. CHARLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Mr. John E. Genova, Principal, TK-8 Mrs. Brenda Ianniciello, Secretary SENIOR CITIZENS MINISTRY Sr. Yvette Perrault, RSM, Coordinator ext. 307 SOCIAL JUSTICE & STATE ISSUES California Catholic Conference & Legislative Network: SOCIAL SERVICE HOLY FAMILY SERVICE CENTER Tues, Wed, Thurs, Sat: 9:00-11:45 am Deacon Louis Roche, Jr., Director ST. CHARLES HEALTH MINISTRY Meets 1st Wednesdays, 7:00 pm, Parish Center Ms. Kathy Scheid USHERS, MINISTRY OF HOSPITALITY Mr. Mark VanCleve mvanc62@aol.com YOUNG ADULTS - THE VINE stcharlesyoungadults@gmail.com RECTORY Moorpark Street, PARISH CENTER Moorpark Street, Mon. - Fri.: 9 am - 9 pm Sat. & Sun.: 9 am - 5 pm PHONE: FAX: SECRETARY: Mrs. Gretchen Schreck Ext. 301 SECRETARY: Ms. Carissa Chuidian Ext. 302 PLEASE VIST OUR PARISH WEBSITE: For inquiries about a vocation to priesthood or religious life, please contact: Fr. Jeff Baker Deanery Vocation Director, frjeffbaker@gmail.com Fr. Michael Perucho San Fernando Regional Vocation Coordinator or fr-perucho@hfglendale.org BULLETIN SUBMISSIONS Please submit announcement requests by Tuesday, eleven (11) days prior to publication, in Parish Center Office or stcharlesbulletin@gmail.com.

3 Page Three St. Charles Borromeo Church July 23, 2017 THE UNCERTAIN FUTURE OF PARISH LIFE One of the most striking things in America s article (Mar. 6) about St. Michael s, in Axtel, Kan., is how atypical the parish is in today s Catholic Church. Having a stable population in a small town, with a pastor who has been there for some time and knows everybody by name, is not representative of most parishes. But recent books about parish life and leadership give us a more comprehensive picture. Great Catholic Parishes by William E. Simon Jr., based on interviews with 244 pastors of parishes designated as healthy and vibrant, identified four essential qualities that these communities have in common: sharing leadership; fostering spiritual maturity and planning for discipleship; excelling on Sundays; and evangelizing in intentional, structured ways. William J. Byron, S. J., reinforces the notion that parish leadership must be shared in his recent book Parish Leadership: Principles and Practices, but he adds that the leadership must integrate Catholic social teaching in the life of the parish for it to be effective. (He also provides an excellent, succinct summary of Catholic social teaching in his second chapter.) For Byron, parish leadership, especially the pastor, must be servant leadership rather than the top of a pyramid, as the latter is abnormal and corrupting. A much more comprehensive study of Catholic parishes is Catholic Parishes of the 21stCentury by the staff of the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA), led by Charles E. Zech. Synthesizing data from a number of recent surveys, the authors use the 1989 Notre Dame Study of Catholic Parish Life as a baseline of comparison. Trends that had begun at that time have continued and intensified, but the operative word in both studies is change. Following are the most significant changes in the last 30 years: The U. S. Catholic population has moved from the Northeast and upper Midwest to the South and Southwest, leaving empty, old and decaying physical plants in urban centers in the Northeast (e.g., Buffalo closed 97 parishes between 2000 and 2010) and large populations in the South are without churches (Atlanta added 10 new parishes during the same period). People move but parishes do not. In 1990, there were just over 34,000 diocesan priests in the U.S.; in 2014 there were 16,462 active diocesan priests. In 2014, 3,448 parishes were without a resident priest. Parish leadership has been supplemented by permanent deacons (there were more than 18,000 in 2014) and an amazing increase in lay ecclesial ministers (up to almost 40,000 in most recent estimates). There have been significant decreases in Mass attendance and participation in the sacraments. More than 100 million in the United States in 2014 were baptized Catholics and more than 78 million self-identified as Catholic, but only 18.7 million attended Mass on a weekly basis. Another 38 million attended Mass about once a month. In 1965, 55 percent of Catholics attended Mass weekly; that was down to 41 percent in 1985 and 24 percent in Younger Catholics and millennials are especially unlikely to attend. There has been a major increase in cultural/ethnic diversity in the American church. In the 1980s, foreign-born Catholics were just above 10 percent of the U.S. Catholic population; in 2014 this category had increased to 25 percent, or 16.8 million people. Much of this immigration is from Latin America, but there are also foreign-born Catholics from dozens of countries across Asia and Africa. About a third of all Catholic parishes serve a particular racial, ethnic, cultural and/or linguistic community, and some serve two or more of these communities. As a result of all of the above, there is a widespread reconfiguration (closing, merging, clustering) of parishes underway in the United States, with a concomitant change in the expectations of leadership. Sometimes this entails a single priest pastoring several parishes; other times it means a team of priests who share responsibility for several parishes; and in still other cases parishes are entrusted to deacons or laypersons (the number in this category peaked at 566 in 2004) or to parish life coordinators (369 in 2015). Parishes are becoming larger and more complex a far cry from the rural parish in Axtel, Kan.! These changes in parish life in the last 30 years pose significant challenges to parish leadership for the foreseeable future. Are we in fact preparing men for these changing forms of leadership? Another recent study of seminary formation at the theologate level by Katarina Schuth, Seminary Formation: Recent History, Current Circumstances, New Directions, gives a picture of what we can expect. Analyzing a wealth of data leads to some disturbing conclusions. Schuth writes, The capability of the church in the United States to meet the spiritual needs of the growing and changing Catholic population depends on the qualities and numbers of men and women preparing for ministry. For the past 20 years there have been barely 500 ordinations a year; meanwhile the Catholic population has grown from 47 million to 71 million since This mismatch is one of the factors in the reconfiguration of parishes and will only increase as the older clergy die or retire. (continued on page 4)

4 Page Four St. Charles Borromeo Church 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time (continued from page 3) There is a generational divide between the older priests who exemplify the servant leader model and younger ones representing the cultic model who see themselves as set apart from their lay colleagues. In one of the book s commentaries, Ronald Rolheiser, O.M.I., a longtime seminary rector, mentions that today s seminarians are not being prepared to be spiritual guides, to give one-on-one spiritual direction or to guide people in prayer and discernment. (Recall that spiritual growth is the second essential characteristic of Great Catholic Parishes, mentioned above.). He is also concerned that today s seminarians do not have enough contact with the poor and are less interested in ecumenism and interfaith dialogue, being inclined to minister only to their own kind. Taken together, these books raise some basic questions: Is the People of God ecclesiology of Vatican II being eclipsed by an older, more hierarchical ecclesiology among seminarians and younger priests? What model of church is operative for them? And with only 18 million out of 78 million self-identified Catholics attending weekly Mass, is the territorial parish the only or even the most suitable basis for Christian communities today? Some years ago, Karl Rahner, SJ, pointed out that the parochial principle has never governed alone in the history of the Church s pastoral ministry, and he goes on to mention wandering apostles, the monasteries, the missionary migration of monks, the mendicant orders, the sodalities and confraternities and other forms of extraparochial ministry. In today s highly mobile and urbanized societies, which increasingly include Asia and Africa, geographical proximity is not the basis of communal life. In contrast to the small town in Kansas mentioned above, people living in urban high-rises or in sprawling suburbs do not even know their neighbors. City parishes are so large that there is no sense of neighborly togetherness. The territorial parish today is not what it was in the past. Some dioceses have been trying to imagine some combination of worship communities, resource communities and small communities for education and evangelization. The goal should be the pastoral care of all of the people, not the mainte- Need Support? Try Agingcare.com Connecting Caregivers This website has great information, news, and articles for those working with the elderly. nance of earlier forms of ecclesial organization. Should we continue to build new large physical plants which will be empty 30 or 40 years from now? We need a new, creative, more imaginative approach to serving the pastoral needs of the people of God than the parochial principle inherited from the village and agrarian societies of the past. Axtel, Kan., is not a model for tomorrow! This article appeared in print, under the headline "The Uncertain Future of Parish Life," in the July 10, 2017 issue of America Magazine. PROPER SUMMER ATTIRE Now that summer is here, we wish to remind everyone that casual attire such as short shorts, tank tops, skimpy dresses & skirts are not proper attire for attendance at Mass. We understand that many vacationers attend our Church due to the various tourist attractions in the area, but as a general rule, modest dress for ladies and gentlemen is expected. St. Charles Organizations & LOCAL Activities AFRICAN/AFRICAN AMERICAN CATHOLIC COMMUNITY First Sundays, 11:15 am, Parish Center First Fridays, 7:30 pm, Prayer Meeting Parish Center Roman Akeh: THE ARMY OF ST. JOHN VIANNEY Holy Hour for the Sanctification of Priests ALL ARE WELCOME Wednesdays: 5:00pm-6:00pm, Parish Center Chapel Group Leader: Ann Doyle catholicpatriot1@gmail.com BIBLE STUDY Tuesdays, 7-9:15 pm, in the Holy Family Service Center Chip Krolik: panares@roadrunner.com CATHOLIC DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAS (CDA) Our Lady of the Angels Court Third Sundays, 3:00 pm. Debra Burley, Regent: CATHOLICS IN ENTERTAINMENT An online spiritual fellowship for like-minded people in the creative arts. Open to all. Sign up at our website to receive industry events, new and information. info@catholicsinentertainment.com FILIPINO AMERICAN COUNCIL Third Wednesdays, 7:30 pm Rico Nosce: rpnsuave@yahoo.com Lito Arias: litoarias147@hotmail.com ITALIAN CATHOLIC FEDERATION (ICF) Branch 382 New members are always welcome, and you do not need to be Italian to join! Third Fridays, 5:30 pm, Parish Center Rose Garcia: KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS (K of C) Victor J. Mahony Council #2670 Third Tuesdays, Social Center, 7-8:30 pm Brother Jacques Shardo: LATIN AMERICAN COUNCIL First Sundays, 1:00-2:30 pm, Parish Center back room. Leticia Char: ST. CHARLES GOLDEN GIRLS The St. Charles Golden Girls meet every Wednesday from 10 am to 2 pm in the Parish Center Conference Room to work on Christmas Boutique items. Contact: Mary Wiser ST. CHARLES SENIOR CLUB Ages 55 & up We welcome Seniors of any faith. Second and fourth Mondays, 10:00 am - 2:00 pm, Parish Center. Marge: SENIOR CARD GAMES Every Thursday 1 to 5 pm In the Parish Center Several Rummy or Bridge Games (Bring your dimes ) Walk-in welcome at 12:45 pm

5 Page Five St. Charles Borromeo Church July 23, 2017 THE RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION OF ADULTS is an opportunity to respond to the gift of faith and become a member of the Living Presence of Jesus Christ in His Catholic Church. RCIA is a program designed for: Anyone inquiring about the Roman Catholic Church Anyone interested in becoming a Catholic through the Sacrament of Baptism Baptized Catholics seeking completion of the Sacraments of Holy Eucharist and Confirmation RCIA Registration: Tuesday: July 25 in the Parish Center Meeting Room from 7 to 8 pm. RCIA Begins: Tuesday, July 25, in the Parish Center Meeting Room 7 to 9 pm. R.C.I.A. Co-Coordinators John Genova and Debra Burley Information: John Genova, or jeopardy1984@yahoo.com Debra Burley, or st_charles_rcia@yahoo.com

6 Page Six St. Charles Borromeo Church 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time Mass Intentions Sunday, July 23-16th Sunday in Ordinary Time 7:15 am Jim Lechner 8:30 am Eleuteria Dalde, Semyon Finkelshteyn 10:00 am Alma Burley, Anthony Saldana, Sr. 11:30 am Aldrin Mondejar 1:00 pm Harold P. Archinal 3:00 pm Redfield Finlay, Jr. Parish Intentions 5:00 pm Jerry Magnotta, Ehlis Gutierrez Monday, July 24 - St. Sharbel Makhlūf 7:30 am Allen Drysch Ileana Catral 12:05 pm Helen Nunez Garcia, Ida Montoya Phyllis Daigle Tuesday, July 25 - St. James 7:30 am Eleanor Warzoha, Ann Janiak 12:05 pm Joe Fehrenbach, Nikki Marie Dupont Wednesday, July 26 - Ss. Anne & Joachim 7:30 am Maria Magdalena Briones Emerico Corpus 12:05 pm Beatriz Tucker Montoya Thursday, July 27 7:30 am Terri Flaten 12:05 pm Bob Hope Friday, July 28 7:30 am Irene Corpuz 12:05 pm John O Connell Rose Bode Rome Saturday, July 29 - St. Martha 7:30 am Guadalupe Lorico 5:00 pm Milagros P. Santos, Frank McCullough Jeanie Lewis Walter Lewis Sunday, July 30-17th Sunday in Ordinary Time 7:15 am Jim Lechner 8:30 am Alma Burley, Joe & Remy Joguilon Angel Martinez 10:00 am Diomisio & Viviana Flores 11:30 am Aline Patane, Benedicta Ong Matt Davis 1:00 pm Gregory Thomas Hudgens Kathy Segura 3:00 pm Gustavo & Hector Gallegos Carlina, Rosalina, & Miguel Antonio Gonzalez 5:00 pm Parish Intentions Deceased Special Intention Rest in Peace Anthony DiLoretta Carrie Taylor Pray for the Sick Patricia Robison Emerico Corpus Angel Martinez Mildred St. Arnaud Jose Quintana Alice Francis To add names, please call the Parish Office Thank you to all who assisted in this week s liturgies! Readings for the Week Mon Ex 14:5-18; Ex 15:1bc-6; Mt 12:38-42 Tue 2 Cor 4:7-15; Ps 126:1bc-6; Mt 20:20-28 Wed Ex 16:1-5, 9-15; Ps 78:18-19, 23-28; Jn 20:1-2, Thu Ex 19:1-2, 9-11, 16-20b; Dn 3:52-56; Mt 13:10-17 Fri Ex 20:1-17; Ps 19:8-11; Mt 13:18-23 Sat Ex 24:3-8; Ps 34:2-11; Jn 11:19-27 or Lk 10:38-42 Sun 1 Kgs 3:5, 7-12; Ps 119:57, 72, ; Rom 8:28-30; Mt 13:44-52 Devotions & Prayers Eucharistic Ministry To be a Eucharistic Minister to the Homebound or to receive communion in your home, contact Mary Genova at To be a Eucharistic Minister for Masses, Lisa Castleton at lisa_castleton@hotmail.com Envelope Reminder In order to receive proper credit for your contributions, please use your preprinted envelopes that you receive monthly in the mail. If you forget your envelope, please include your number with your donation. DISCERNING YOUR LIFE PATH? Contact Sr. Carol Quinlivan, CSJ: cquinlivan@csjla.org Welcome to St. Charles Borromeo Parish! Please register if you would like to be a member of our community. Thank you for printing neatly and dropping this form in the offering basket or at the Parish Office. Your personalized tithing envelopes will be mailed to you in 8-12 weeks. If you use the envelopes in the pews, please mark your first and family name and your envelope number. Check here if this a change of address. Mr. & Mrs. Mr. Mrs. Ms. Student First Fridays in the Parish Center Chapel at 4:30 pm FIRST FRIDAY, August 4th RECONCILIATION Thursday 3:30-4:30 pm MASS - 7:30 am & 12:05 pm EUCHARTISTIC ADORATION 8:00 am - 6 pm RESPECT LIFE ROSARY 4:30 pm MISA EL PRIMER VIERNES 7:00 pm NOVENA Our Lady of Perpetual Help Tuesdays, Following 12:05 pm Mass ROSARY Following 7:30 am & 12:05 pm Mass And before 5 pm Saturday Vigil Mass OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE Sundays, 4:00 pm Name Spouse Address City Zip Telephone

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8 Page Eight St. Charles Borromeo Church 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time PARISH/SCHOOL ACTIVITIES, MINISTRIES, AND NEWS The St. Charles Health Ministry will host Friendship Sunday until 1 pm in the Social Center. Please stop by! Next week s host: The New Evangelization Team Our FREE BLOOD PRESSURE screening service will be on hiatus in July and August. We will re-open on September 5. You are encouraged to check your local drug stores for blood pressure screening services during this time. Our last for this service will be June 27, from 9:30 to 11:30 am in the Holy Family Service Center. A special THANK YOU to our team of volunteers who perform this service! OUR WALKING CLUB MEETS 5:30 PM ON MONDAY NIGHTS IN THE PARKING LOT BEHIND THE CHURCH Safeguard the Children IMPLEMENTING NATIONAL MANDATE TO PROTECT CHILDREN 2016 VIRTUS TRAINING, RE-CERTIFICATION, & FINGERPRINTING SCHEDULE ALL TRAINING AND FINGERPRINTING TAKE PLACE IN THE SOCIAL CENTER Virtus - Full Certification - Saturday, September 9: from 10 am to 1 pm Re-Certification Seminar - Saturday, September 9: from 2:30 to 4 pm Fingerprinting - Saturday, August 19: from 10 am to 5 pm To register for one of the seminars, please contact the Religious Education Office at If you are unable to speak with someone, please leave a message and provide the following information: name, phone number, your , and session you plan to attend. Thank you marks 15 years since the establishment of the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. The Archdiocese has made an ongoing commitment over the past 15 years to implement the Charter by providing education and tools to help protect children and young people from child sexual abuse and other threats to their safety. Since 2002, the Archdiocese has trained 300,000 adults and more than 1.4 million children. For more information, visit protecting/pages/default.aspx.

9 Page Nine St. Charles Borromeo Church July 23, 2017 CELEBRATING THE PAST... LOOKING TO THE FUTURE Capital Campaign Phase IV Progress Report GOAL: Approx. $6,000,000 Initial Campaign Funds (2/1/10) $1,500,000 Unpaid Pledges DUE (2004 to present) $251, Second Collection (2/20/10 to present) $649, Contributions and Pledge Payments (2/20/10 to present) $3,408, TOTAL (Pledges and Cash) $5,809, The monthly pledge 2017 PLEDGE UPDATE Our Parish s Assigned Goal: $100, Amount Pledged: $85, Amount Paid: $74, Remaining Balance: $26, assigned goal, the parish is responsible for paying the deficit. Holy Family Service Center The surest way to determine whether one possesses the love of God is to see whether he or she loves his or her neighbor. These two loves are never separated. Rest assured, the more you progress in love of neighbor the more your love of God will increase. St. Teresa of Avila Items We Especially Need Canned meat such as tuna, chicken, and sausage Peanut butter, cereal, shelf stable cartons of soup, and milk Tab top cans that can be meals such as chili, sausage, or spaghetti Individually wrapped packets of nuts, protein bars, or granola bars Toothpaste, toothbrushes, soap, shampoo Men s work pants and jeans, all sizes, and especially sizes Underwear and socks for men and women Towels, all sizes, and bed linens, especially sheet sets marked by size Please ring the bell at the west side door of the Service Center for donation drop off during our regular operating hours of Tues, Wed, & Thurs 9 11:45 am. Showers and Haircuts - Thurs, 8:30 to 11:30 am Hot Breakfast - Thurs, 9 to 11 am Phone: ST. CHARLES BORROMEO PARISH NOW PROVIDES ONLINE GIVING. A CONVENIENT & SAFE WAY TO MAKE A DONATION. REGISTERING IS EASY: JUST VISIT OUR WEBSITE, AND CLICK OUR LINK. WHEN YOU PARTICIPATE, YOUR GIFT WILL BE SECURELY TRANSFERRED DIRECTLY INTO THE PARISH BANK ACCOUNT. USHER NEEDED!!! There is a current opening for a permanent usher at the Saturday 5 pm Mass. If you are interested, please contact Anna (head usher) at mass or her at amvplanner@gmail.com. We are currently looking for Home Bound Ministers. Home Bound Ministers visit the parishioners who are unable to attend Mass. We visit and say prayers and bring the Holy Eucharist to them. It is a VERY rewarding ministry. Training is available. If you are interested, please contact Mary Genova at

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