Mission Statement: Love God, Serve Others, Bear Fruit

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1 Mission Statement: Love God, Serve Others, Bear Fruit 6400 Saint Therese Way San Diego CA October 15th, 2017 The Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time MASS SCHEDULE SUNDAY MASSES: Saturday: 5pm Sunday: 7, 9, & 11am; 5pm Weekdays: Monday - Saturday, 7:30am HOLY DAYS: see bulletin CLERGY Fr. Peter Bosque, Pastor Deacon Robert T. Ekhaml Deacon Patrick M. Wright Fr. Justin Langille Fr. William Stevenson Fr. Richard Pagano Sunday Presiders CONFESSIONS SATURDAY: 3pm until last penitent Please contact the Parish Office, or our website, for information regarding Sacraments. Thank You. tel

2 Edito note Fathe Klau ha w itten the ho ily below fo p ie t to adapt in their parishes. The homily was written to help priests in celebration the Mass with the third edition of The Roman Missal and enhance the liturgies in their parish.) You and your parishioners have heard how some of the words to the prayers that we say at Mass have changed. For about ten years, the Bishops from the English-speaking countries around the world have been working on the translation of the third edition of The Roman Missal. As you know, this translation does not change the structure of the Mass, but changes some of the words we now proclaim at Mass. After praying the same words to the Mass for so many years, we have the opportunity for ourselves to become more conscious of the words we pray, and help inspire the Faithful to become active participants in the sacrifice of the Mass, and enter into the loving transformation of our lives into His!!! I am still stunned at the lack of engagement to the words we pray in the presiding prayers, the lack of fervor in saying, much less owning the prayer of, Amen!!! This last Sunday s opening prayer, now called the Collect, as an example: O God, who have (sic) prepared for those who love you good things which no eye can see, fill our hearts with the warmth of your love, so that loving you in all things, and above all things, we may attain your promises, which surpass every human desire. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. How can we as His disciples, His children, not SHOUT our WE BELIEVE our Amen, to that prayer!? And yet, as we priests know, the response is so often desultory at best! In the Latin Mass, there was at least the explanation that the Faithful were reading their own prayers, and unaware of the beauty and grace of the Church s universal prayer at the beginning of Mass --- a prayer that sets the tone, helps us to prepare for, the Liturgy of the Word, to listen to God s Saving Word!! Words affect our lives. How we say and hear words makes a difference in how we live, pray, and believe. Thus, with the words we pray at Mass sounding different, let us work as presiders to help the People to pray more consciously, more enthusiastically, more effectively!!! Think too of the way we say the Our Father. Do we really think about what we say when we pray forgive us our trespasses, / as we forgive those who trespass against us? Although this translation sounds more formal in language, it is scripturally rich in its meanings and images, connecting the biblical phrasings and images to the images in the prayers of the Mass. Now, instead of hearing in Eucharistic Prayer III, from east to west / a perfect offering may be made, you will hear, from the rising of the sun to its setting / a pure sacrifice may be offered to your name. This text presents a richer biblical image for us to picture, and for us to enter into!!! Some of the other changes are significant, most especially the response to The Lord be with you, to which we now respond, And with your spirit. This change is a reminder of the Divine dialogue, by which the Faithful (here in this kingdom of this time and place) are praying with those who are in His Kingdom (that is to come) (emphasis added). Now is the time for ALL of use, priests, deacons and lay faithful, to embrace the fuller meaning of the Second Vatican Council for a full, conscious, and active participation by the faithful in the liturgy. (Emphasis in the original.) Now is the time for us to be even more conscious of what we pray at Mass. Change, as we all know, is a part of life. So speaks so eloquently, Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman in the late 19 th century. Just think how our world has changed in the United States of America since September 11, We are not the same Catholic people we were only a few years ago. I would hope that all of us have grown in holiness and in our faith and understanding of God.

3 ST. THERESE PARISH UPCOMING EVENTS WORLD MISSION SUNDAY SECOND COLLECTION Next week, we will celebrate World Mission Sunday. The theme this year is Mercy Changes the World. Pope Francis invites the en re Church to support the young mission dioceses in Africa, Asia, the Pacific Islands, and parts of La n America and Europe, where priests, religious and lay leaders serve some of the poorest of the poor. Please keep the Missions in your prayers and be generous in next week s collec on for the society of the Propaga on of the Faith. CALLING ALL HIGH SCHOOL YOUTH Join us for our first Youth Group of the year on this Sunday, October 15th, from 6:30-8:30pm in the Social Center. 40 DAYS FOR LIFE St. Therese Parish has been invited to par cipate in peaceful prayer vigil outside the Planned Parenthood at 1685 E. Main Street, El Cajon, CA. We have been asked to help on Sunday a ernoons from 1PM- 7PM from October 1st through November 5th. For parish only sign-up or more informa on call Ka e Grauerholz at Thank you! 50+ CLUB Our next luncheon will be on Wednesday, October 18, at 11:15 a.m. in the Social Center. The cost of the catered lunch, which includes wine, lemonade, coffee and dessert, is $9 for members and $10 for guests. New members are welcome. Please mail your reserva on before October 14. Forms for reserva on and membership/dues payment are available in the Church ves bule. Sorry, we cannot accept walk-ins. You may contact Sylvia at if you have any ques ons. Feast of All Souls Fr. P.Bosque On November 2 nd, our Church celebrates the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls). On that day, and for nine days, a novena Mass will be prayed. In anticipation of our remembrance, and thanksgiving for the lives of those we love, you are invited to call by name all of the loved ones you want remembered those we will pray for, and WITH, in our Masses. Despite our grief, we should take consolation from our faith. For as the funeral rites of the Catholic Church teach (the Preface of the Funeral Mass): In Him, who rose from the dead, our hope of resurrection dawned. The sadness of death gives way to the bright promise of immortality. Lord, for Your faithful people life is changed, not ended. When the body of our earthly dwelling lies in death we gain an everlasting dwelling place in heaven. Envelopes for your use to identify your loved ones, and for any gift (if you choose), have been included in your envelope packets mailed home, and mailed to our registered families. As the now Blessed John Cardinal Newman once prayed (in 1870), I invite you to join in his words and faith: May the Lord support us all the day long, till the shadows lengthen and the evening comes and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done. Then in His mercy, may our Lord give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last. Amen!

4 Fr. Stanley Rother will be first U.S.-born priest beatified by, María Ruiz Scaperlanda America Magazine Vol. 217 / No. 6 - September 18, 2017 On Sept. 23, the Oklahoma farmer and priest Stanley Francis Rother will become the first U.S.-born priest to be declared blessed. The beatification will take place in Oklahoma, a state where Catholics comprise only 6 percent of the population. No matter how impressive, however, statistics are not what make this missionary disciple from the town of Okarche most remarkable. In Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala, the village Father Rother served for the final 13 years of his life, the people remember and honor a faithful priest, a farmer who plowed the fields alongside them, a shepherd who proclaimed the Gospel with his life, a courageous man who chose to remain with them even when violence threatened and eventually took his life. He was a pastor whose love was expressed, above all, by serving, by doing whatever Christ asked of him. Through his faithfulness and gift of presence, Padre Apla the name his Tz utujil Mayan parishioners gave him in their native tongue embodied the essence of a true disciple. He was a pastor whose love was expressed, above all, by serving, by doing whatever Christ asked of him even when it seemed impossible, like completing his seminary studies after failing the first year of theology. In a manner both humorous and courageous, the seminarian who struggled with learning Latin became the missionary priest who not only learned Spanish but also became completely fluent in the rare and challenging Tz utujil language. Then and always, Father Rother put himself completely into the Lord s hands, with confident trust in divine providence. He lived a life of heroic virtue with a keen awareness of God s presence in the small and quotidian moments of parish life, as well as in the unfamiliar and often unexpected events of missionary life. In 1975, at the young age of 40, he became the sole priest and pastor at the Oklahoma mission La Iglesia Parroquial de Santiago Apóstol (St. James the Apostle), which served 25,000 Tz utujil parishioners. From celebrating Mass and the sacraments to building a clinic and fixing machinery, Father Rother imitated Christ s model of servant leadership. And when Guatemala s violent conflicto armado interno, or armed internal conflict, made its way to the remote village on the shores of Lake Atitlán, his priestly duties expanded to include heartbreaking tasks like walking the roads searching for the bodies of the desaparecidos, parishioners who had gone missing. And what do we do about all this? wrote Father Rother to a friend. What can we do but do our work, keep our heads down, preach the Gospel of love and nonviolence. To use Pope Francis image, Father Rother was a shepherd who smelled like his sheep. Paraphrasing the words St. Paul used in Acts 13:22 to recall God s reason for favoring King David, it is clear that Christ found in Rother a man after his own heart, one who did all that was asked of him to the point of martyrdom. As he wrote at the end of his final Christmas letter from the mission to his church back in Oklahoma in 1980, The shepherd cannot run at the first sign of danger. Pray for us that we may be a sign of the love of Christ for our people, that our presence among them will fortify them to endure these sufferings in preparation for the coming of the Kingdom. On July 28, 1981, Father Stanley Rother, the servant of love, was murdered in the parish rectory, martyred for the Gospel and for his sheep. Our missionary journey to the peripheries of our lives will inevitably be different from that of Blessed Stanley Rother. But ultimately, the question we must answer is the same: What is God asking of me today, in this moment, in this place? If anyone can model this call to holiness in the midst of our very ordinary lives, it is the farmer from Okarche. He would tell us that it all begins with our willingness to say yes to whatever and whomever God has placed in front of us. María Ruiz Scaperlanda is an award-winning journalist and author. The Shepherd Who Didn t Run: Fr. Stanley Rother, Martyr From Oklahoma is her sixth book.

5 St. Therese Academy 6046 Camino Rico, San Diego, CA PAST EVENT: Feast of St. Francis - Blessing of the Animals UPCOMING EVENTS: Visit our web site at Join us at 7:00 a.m. on Sunday, October 15th for the American Cancer Society - Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk in Balboa Park. Meet by the palm trees on the corner of 6th and Laurel - look for our STA sign. Visit our website for more details. St. Therese Academy will be closed on Friday, October 20th. School will resume on Monday, October 23rd. St. Therese Academy will celebrate RED RIBBON WEEK October 23rd - 27th. Our Student Council has planned daily activities, intended to inspire our students to make healthy life choices.

6 Weekly Calendar Monday - Saturday 8:00 a.m. Rosary in the Church Wednesday 10:00 a.m. Wrapped in Love in the SC Lounge 11:15 a.m. 50+ Luncheon in the Social Center 4:00 p.m. Religious Ed. in the STA classrooms 6:45 p.m. R.C.I.A. in the STA Library 7:00p.m. M.S.Y.G. in the Social Center Thursday 9:00 a.m. Walking With Purpose in the Social Center 7:00 p.m. Walking With Purpose in the Social Center Friday 5:30 p.m. Fish Fry in the Social Center Weekly Mass Intentions Monday, October 16th 7:30 a.m. + MC Jean Tuesday, October 17th 7:30 a.m. + Joseph Tran Wednesday, October 18th 7:30 a.m. + Edmund Cordova Thursday, October 19th 7:30 a.m. - Int. of the Kankowski Family Friday, October 20th 7:30 a.m. + Robert Barone Saturday, October 21st 7:30 a.m. - Protection of the Unborn 5:00 p.m. - ICF Members Living & Deceased Sunday, October 22nd 7:00 a.m. + Edrena Guillary 9:00 a.m. - Int. of the Parishioners 11:00 a.m. + Edward Marshall 5:00 p.m. + Gloria Aguirre Prayers of the Faithful After three weeks, the names will be sent to the Adoration Chapel. Please pray for the following who are ill, their families, and those who care for them, especially: Kathy Neilson, Pat Brennan, Dick Rohmer, Cooper Ward, Lily Colderon, Violet Oliveri, George Neumann, Denise Corey, Joe Ibanez, Jason Dugan, Elizabeth Robles, Eden Kennedy, Helen Cunningham, Mary Quinn, Philip Serrano, Beverly Mascari, Barbara Kammerer, Cesar Orozco, and Harper Harrison. P A R I S H S T A F F PASTOR Fr. Peter Bosque ext. 103 fr.bosque@stthereseparish.org DEACONS Deacon Patrick Wright ext. 306 deacon.wright@stthereseparish.org Deacon Bob Ekhaml ext. 307 deacon.ekhaml@stthereseparish.org PASTORAL MINISTER Bonnie Hernandez ext. 102 bonnie@stthereseparish.org BUSINESS MANAGER/BOOKEEPER Susan Orelli ext. 100 susan@stthereseparish.org PARISH SECRETARY Jennifer Stevenson ext. 101 jstevenson@stthereseparish.org ELEMENTARY RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Director: Sr. Janet Marich ext. 305 jmarich@sta-sd.org YOUTH MINISTRY (JR. & SR. HIGH) Director: Raymond D. Deang rdeang@stthereseparish.org Coordinator: Reanna Layba ext. 308 reanna@stthereseparish.org ST. THERESE ACADEMY Principal: Mark Sperrazzo msperrazzo@sta-sd.org P A R I S H P R O G R A M S / O R G A N I Z A T I O N S MUSIC MINISTRY Saturday 5pm & Sunday 7am Masses: Michael Ruhl Sunday 9 & 11am Masses: Reneé Mitchell Sunday 5pm Mass: Sara Osmus Annie Barrack R.C.I.A. Anna Farrell ADORATION CHAPEL Pat Kankowski PLUS SOCIAL CLUB President: Sylvia Nasri FRIENDS OF THE MISSIONS Mo Kojis ST. THERESE CHARITIES President: JoAnn Rossi ST. THERESE MENTAL HEALTH MINISTRY Deacon Patrick Wright P A R I S H R E L A T E D O R G A N I Z A T I O N S ITALIAN CATHOLIC FEDERATION President: Pam Tallarida KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Grand Knight: David Bates MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER Mike and Anita Barletta barfive@cox.net The Rest Stop (Men s Bible Study) Mick Parada WALKING WITH PURPOSE (Women s Bible Study) Kelly Kocina

7 Menu Calamari $9.00 Cod $9.00 Shrimp $9.00 Salmon $10.00 Served with: Scalloped Potatoes Coleslaw Bread & Butter Coffee & Punch Ice Cream Sundae Wine is available for purchase. Friday, October 20 th 5:30-6:30 p.m. In The Social Center St. Therese Parish Come socialize with friends and fellow parishioners & enjoy a delicious seafood dinner. Those wishing to have baked salmon need to call Mo, , BEFORE Thursday, October 18 th. All Please bring this coupon for $1.00 off the price of your meal on 10/20/17!