THE TWENTY-FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

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1 AUGUST 27, 2017 THE TWENTY-FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 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 A Catholic Parish Community Moorpark Street (Moorpark St. & Lankershim Blvd.) North Hollywood, CA TEL FAX

2 Page Two St. Charles Borromeo Church 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time Parish Ministries, Sacraments, & Formation ADULT CONFIRMATION Coordinator: Tom Castleton 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 HOLY FAMILY SERVICE CENTER Tues, Wed, Thurs, Sat: 9:00-11:45 am Deacon Louis Roche, Jr., Director 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 6 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: PRAYER SHAWL MINISTRY Crocheters and Knitters of All Levels First Saturday of Every Month: 10 am to Noon Mrs. Kim Bonilla: mrskbonilla@gmail.com 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 Mrs. Dawn Duncan, 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 jimmyguitarjr@hotmail.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: 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 August 27, 2017 UNDERSTANDING GRACE MORE DEEPLY By Father Ronald Rolheiser, OMI (this article appeared in the July 20, 2017, issue of Angelus Magazine) The mark of genuine contrition is not a sense of guilt, but a sense of sorrow, of regret for having taken a wrong turn just as the mark of living in grace is not a sense of our own worth, but a sense of being accepted and loved despite our unworthiness. We are spiritually healthy when our lives are marked by honest confession and honest praise. Jean-Luc Marion highlights this in a commentary on St. Augustine s famous Confessions. He sees Augustine s confession as a work of a true moral conscience because it is both a confession of praise and a confession of sin. Gil Bailie suggests that this comment underlines an important criterion by which to judge whether or not we are living in grace: If the confession of praise is not accompanied by the confession of sin it is an empty and pompous gesture. If the confession of sins is not accompanied by a confession of praise, it is equally vacuous and barren, the stuff of trashy magazines and tabloid newspapers, a self-preening parody of repentance. Bailie is right, but doing both confessions at one and the same time is not an easy task. We generally find ourselves falling into either a confession of praise, where there is no real confession of our own sin, or into the self-preening parody of repentance of a still self-absorbed convert, where our confession rings hollow because it shows itself more as a badge of sophistication than as genuine sorrow for having strayed. In neither case is there a true sense of grace. Piet Fransen, whose masterful book on grace served as a textbook in seminaries and theology schools for a generation, submits that neither the self-confident believer (who still secretly envies the pleasures of the amoral that he s missing out on) nor the wayward person who converts, but still feels grateful for his fling, has yet understood grace. We understand grace only when we grasp existentially what s inside the Father s words to his older son in the parable of the prodigal son: My son, you are always with me and everything I have is yours. But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found. The older brother would not be bitter if he understood that everything his father owns is already his, just as he would not be envious of the pleasures his wayward brother tasted if he understood that, in real life, his brother had been dead. But it takes a deeper grasp of what grace is to intuit that, to grasp that life inside God s house dwarfs all other pleasures. The same is true for the convert who has given up his wayward life, but still secretly rejoices in the experience and sophistication it brought him and nurses a condescending pity for the less experienced. He, too, has not yet really understood grace. In his book, The Idea of the Holy, now considered a classic, Rudolf Otto submits that in the presence of the holy we will always have a double reaction: fear and attraction. Like Peter at the Transfiguration, we will want to build a tent and stay there forever; but, like him, too, before the miraculous catch of fish, we will also want to say, Depart from me for I am a sinful man. In the presence of the holy, we want to burst forth in praise even as we want to confess our sins. That insight can help us to understand grace. Piet Fransen begins his signature book on grace, The New Life of Grace, by asking us to imagine this scene: Picture a man who lives his life in mindless hedonism. He simply drinks in the sensual pleasures of this world without a thought for God, responsibility or morality. Then, after a long life of illicit pleasure, he has a genuine deathbed conversion, sincerely confesses his sins, receives the sacraments of the church and dies in that happy state. If our spontaneous reaction to this story is: Well, the lucky fellow! He had flings and still made it in the end! we have not yet understood grace, but instead are still embittered moralizers standing like the older brother in need of a further conversation with our God. And the same holds true, too, for the convert who still feels that what he s experienced in his waywardness, his fling, is a deeper joy than the one known by those who have not strayed. In this case, he s come back to his father s house, not because he senses a deeper joy there, but because he deems his return an unwanted duty, less exciting, less interesting and less joy-filled than a sinful life, but a necessary moral exit strategy. He, too, has yet to understand grace. Only when we understand what the father of the prodigal son means when he says to the older brother, Everything I have is yours, will we offer both a confession of praise and a confession of sin. Oblate of Mary Immaculate Father Ronald Rolheiser is a specialist in the field of spirituality and systematic theology. His website is

4 Page Four St. Charles Borromeo Church 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time 2017 VIRTUS TRAINING, RE-CERTIFICATION, & FINGERPRINTING SCHEDULE TRAINING IS 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 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.

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6 Page Six St. Charles Borromeo Church 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time Mass Intentions Monday, August 28 St. Augustine 7:30 am Michael Ogiens Mikee Eusebio 12:05 pm Maria Pruna Marlon Morgai, Mikee Eusedbio Tuesday, August 29 The Passion of St. John the Baptist 7:30 am Ralph Wagner 12:05 pm Cefeino Englis Maria Chelo Frias, Elisa Ramat Wednesday, August 30 7:30 am Maria Magdalena Briones Michael Wayne Rosa E. Mendoza 12:05 pm Jack Hennessy Thursday, August 31 7:30 am Jude Genova 12:05 pm Cedric Dumornay Amador Dayola, Jr. Friday, September 1 First Friday 7:30 am Priscilla Roche 12:05 pm Margareta Stark Priscilla Roche Amador Dayola, Jr. Saturday, September 2 Blessed Virgin Mary 7:30 am Emiterio Baquiran Ceferino Aquino 5:00 pm Christine Bailey Lorraine Ramisch Luis Avalos Amador Dayola, Jr. Sunday, September 3 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time 7:15 am Sally Catlin 8:30 am Ed & Grace Toban 10:00 am Oluchi & Keneolisa Ogike Minh Dang, Mui Pham Charles Strongo Parish Intentions 11:30 am William & Sarah Todaro 1:00 pm Jude Genova 3:00 pm Dominic Genova 5:00 pm Amador Dayola, Jr. Deceased Special Intention Rest in Peace Giovanna Williams Peter Patino Pray for the Sick Mary Rende & Family Felisa Ramat Nick Fairchild Victor Peries Elisa Ramat Kathy Reese To add names, please call the Parish Office Thank you to all who assisted in this week s liturgies! Readings for the Week Mon 1 Thes 1:1-5, 8b-10; Ps 149:1b-6a, 9b; Mt 23:13-22 Tue 1 Thes 2:1-8; Ps 139:1-6; Mk 6:17-29 Wed 1 Thes 2:9-13; Ps 139:7-12ab; Mt 23:27-32 Thu 1 Thes 3:7-13; Ps 90:3-5a, 12-14, 17; Mt 24:42-51 Fri 1 Thes 4:1-8; Ps 97:1, 2b, 5-6, 10-12; Mt 25:1-13 Sat 1 Thes 4:9-11; Ps 98:1, 7-9; Mt 25:14-30 Sun Jer 20:7-9; Ps 63:2-6, 8-9; Rom 12:1-2; Mt 16:21-27 Devotions & Prayers First Fridays in the Parish Center Chapel at 4:30 pm FIRST FRIDAY, September 1st RECONCILIATION Thursday 3:30-4:30 pm MASS - 7:30 am & 12:05 pm EUCHARTISTIC ADORATION 8:00 am - 6 pm MISA EL PRIMER VIERNES 7:00 pm NOVENA Our Lady of Perpetual Help Tuesdays, Following 12:05 pm Mass OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE Sundays, 4:00 pm 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 Name Spouse Address City Zip Telephone

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8 Page Eight St. Charles Borromeo Church 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time PARISH/SCHOOL ACTIVITIES, MINISTRIES, AND NEWS The Way will host Friendship Sunday until 1 pm in the Social Center in conjunction with a Bake Sale. There will be no Frienship Sunday next week - Labor Day 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 AT 5:30 PM ON MONDAY NIGHTS IN THE PARKING LOT BEHIND THE CHURCH Safeguard the Children IMPLEMENTING NATIONAL MANDATE TO PROTECT CHILDREN 2017 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

9 Page Nine St. Charles Borromeo Church August 27, 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) $657, Contributions and Pledge Payments (2/20/10 to present) $3,414, TOTAL (Pledges and Cash) $5,822, 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 Envelopes for Service Center Available in September Envelopes for donation to the service center will be in the pews throughout September. All donations are helpful, and we appreciate your generosity. Saturday Hours Resume the Weekend After Labor Day The service center will be open Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, from 9 am to 11:45 am for donations and to serve our clients. Our hot breakfast and hot shower ministry for the homeless is on Thursday mornings from 8 am to 11 am. We Need New Volunteers for the Hot Breakfast Ministry Our ministry has grown, and we need a few good folks who can volunteer weekly on Thursdays from 8 am to 11:30 am. Volunteers will be asked to pass the Safe Food Handler s certification test, which is available to take on line for a fee of $15. Please call team leader Jan Horger at to talk about joining this fun and rewarding ministry. We Especially Request These Items Canned meat such as tuna, and tab top cans \ of food that can be meals, such as chili Peanut butter, cereal, and individually wrapped servings such as protein bars, or nut Smaller toothpaste, toothbrushes, soap, and smaller packets of baby wipes 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. APPEAL FOR SAN RAMON CHURCH Father Tomas Tadeo is a Salesian priest who, in 2016, celebrated 50 years of Priesthood. He s a native of Uruguay, and for most of his apostolate he held posts in Secondary Schools, twice as Director, and also was the pastor of parishes in Montevideo and Paysandu, where he is now. He is currently the pastor of San Ramon Church which is very close to the Port and the Uruguay River. Due to its proximity to the river, the church has been inundated with flood waters three out of the last four years. The waters are receding, but the damage has been done. Many repairs need to be made. Father Tadeo will be speaking at Masses this weekend. Thank you for you generosity. THE 1ST SAN FERNANDO VALLEY INTERFAITH SOLIDARITY MARCH On Sunday, September 10, from 2 to 6 pm, there will be a 2-mile March starting at Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church for all people of faith and conscience as a symbol of solidarity and unity with our marginalized communities, neighbors, and colleagues. In commemoration of the 16th anniversary of 9/11, we reject violence in the name of religion. On this day we celebrate and promote our common humanity. For information, please contact Sister Yvette at syperr@att.net or

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