HOLY NAME OF JESUS PARISH San Francisco, CA.

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1 HOLY NAME OF JESUS PARISH San Francisco, CA. Second Sunday of Advent December 7, 2008

2 HOLY NAME OF JESUS PARISH th Ave. San Francisco, California Phone: (415) Fax: (415) Rev. Donald S. D Angelo PASTOR Rev. Nicasio Paloso PAROCHIAL VICAR Most Rev. Ignatius Wang, JCD Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco IN RESIDENCE Rev. Mr. Michael Doherty, Deacon PAROCHIAL ASSOCIATE Sr. Stella Negri, FdCC PASTORAL ASSOCIATE Sr. Esther Ling, FdCC SPIRITUAL DIRECTOR CHINESE MINISTRY D.R.E., HOLY NAME SCHOOL Mr. Tony Eiras MUSIC DIRECTOR Colleen A. Durkin PARISH SECRETARY Jackie C. Alcaraz OFFICE MANAGER Rev. Mr. Mike Quinn DEACON Mr. Leoul Samson YOUTH MINISTRY COORDINATOR HOLY NAME SCHOOL th Ave. SF, CA (415) Mrs. Judy Cosmos PRINCIPAL Miss Linda McCausland VICE PRINCIPAL PARISH NURSE PROGRAM Carol, R.N. (415) ext. 109 SCHEDULE OF MASSES Sunday 7:30 AM, 9:30 AM (Family Mass), 11:30 AM, 5:15 PM (Vietnamese) Saturday 7:30 AM, 9:00 AM, 3:00 PM (Chinese), 5:00 PM (Vigil) Weekdays 7:30 AM, 9:00 AM Holy Days 7:30 AM, 9:00AM, and 7:30 PM Confessions 15 minutes before 9:30 and 11:30 AM Masses on Sunday or by appointment 4:30-5:00 PM Saturday Perpetual Help Devotions Friday following the 9:00 AM Mass Baptisms Baptisms by appointment Baptismal Preparation Fourth Thursday of the month in the Pastoral Center - 7:30 PM Marriages Contact Rectory 6 months in advance. Religious Education (for Children) Kindergarten to 9th Saturday 10 AM 12 Noon RCIA for youth Monday 5:00-6:30 PM Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (R.C.I.A.) Every Wednesday Pastoral Center 7:30 PM Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Every Wednesday 9:30 AM 7:30 PM Bible Class VISIT OUR WEBSITES: HOLY NAME CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC Private lessons are offered in piano, voice, guitar and violin. For more information or to register, please contact Jackie at (415) ext 114. MAGDALEN OF CANOSSA CONVENT: th Ave. San Francisco, CA (415) RECTORY 3240 Lawton St. San Francisco, CA (415) FLANAGAN CENTER (415)

3 WELCOME TO HOLY NAME OF JESUS PARISH, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA Page 3 Second Sunday of Advent December 7, 2008 Every valley shall be filled in, every mountain and hill shall be made low. Isaiah 40:4 TODAY S READINGS First Reading The rugged land shall be made a plain; the rough country, a broad valley (Isaiah 40:1-5, 9-11). Psalm Lord, let us see your kindness, and grant us your salvation (Psalm 85). Second Reading Conduct yourselves in holiness, hastening the coming of the day of God (2 Peter 3:8-14). Gospel I have baptized you with water; he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit (Mark 1:1-8). SOLEMNITY OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY Monday, December 8, 2008 This is a Holy Day of Obligation Masses will be at 7:30 AM, 9 AM & 7:30 PM in the CHURCH NEXT SUNDAY S SECOND COLLECTION Retirement Fund for Religious Share in the Care Ninety-five percent of donations to the National Religious Retirement Office aid elderly religious. About 58% of women and men religious are past age 70; 7% are past age 90. More than 4,900 need skilled nursing care. Even at advanced ages, many work in compensated or volunteer ministry that benefits others. Your generous donation will help many of our religious get the care they need. MASS INTENTIONS WEEK of December 7, 2008 Sun 07 7:30 AM Durkin & Costello Families 9:30 AM Kun Chat Chiang & Wai Chun Lau 11:30 AM Mass for the People Mon 08 7:30 AM Special Intentions of the Domingo & Maria de la Cruz Family 9:30 AM Linda Domingo 7:30 PM Special Intentions of Jean-Louis Etchelet Tue 09 7:30 AM Vincent Kelly 9:00 AM Eufemia Abaya Wed 10 7:30 AM Quiroz-Ward & Emmons Families 9:00 AM Frost Crotty Families Thu 11 7:30 AM Special Intentions of Carina Dumantay 9:00 AM Pete Hinson Fri 12 7:30 AM Julia & Jose Cruz 9:00 AM Chris Slane Sat 13 7:30 AM Jim Casey 9:00 AM Special Intentions of Lucy Nejar de Dios 5:00 PM Richard Shebay We pray for the Sick...that they may experience God s Love and Healing. Lorenzo Aguirre, Vita Briones, Dalmacio Briones, Jr., Joseph Fiumara, Mani Glanz, Mary Leung, Kathleen Murphy, Sonia Coote, Deogracias Cusi, Lily No Dee, Hilda Doherty, Jose Dominguez, Loretto La Fuente, Betty Lynch, Lowel Lu, Erick Ongsitco, Chung Tang, Mee Yee, Pak Hung Kwan & Joyce Furman. Those Who Have Died: Charles Kreps TODAY S SECOND COLLECTION IS THE ACE COLLECTION FOR THE BENEFIT OF OUR PARISH SCHOOL. Your generosity is greatly appreciated!

4 WELCOME TO HOLY NAME OF JESUS PARISH, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA Page 4 You are cordially invited to attend the 3rd ANNUAL FALL RECITAL HOLY NAME CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC this SUNDAY, December 7, 2008 at 2:00 PM Holy Name of Jesus Church PERFORMING ARE: VOICE STUDENTS: Mavis Ibasco, Aryanna Arantes, Campbell Gee, Sophia Hapin, Gwynette Oller, Katherine Young, Isabella & Katrina Alcaraz GUITAR STUDENTS: Owen Weir, Isobel Senhaji, Emma Mitchell & Lucas Hapin VIOLIN STUDENTS: Toby Lee & Tian Ming Chu PIANO STUDENTS: Samantha Boarman, Sabine Berg, Krystal Chan, Veronica Mei, Rachel Tam, Sophia Hapin, Patrick McSweeney, Jasmine Sullivan, Andrew Tsao, Jacob Wilson Gates, Ethan Wong, Kimberly Beach, Kyle Wong, Susanna Mei & Isabella Alcaraz CHRISTMAS FLOWER ENVELOPES Envelopes for your Christmas Flower donations will be available in the Church & the Chapel entry. Envelopes may be returned in the collection baskets, the Pastoral Center mailbox, or in the special box in the Church. Thanks to your generosity, our Environment Committee will be able to purchase flowers and plants now and throughout the year. CRAB BASH RESULTS On behalf of Fr. Don, I am pleased to announce that the Crab Bash grossed $11, 582 in tickets sales, $1,765 in raffle sales and $ in tips for the 8th Graders that would go towards their 8th Grade Activities Fund. Even with the support of our generous donors, the expenses this year were higher compared to previous years. The expenses also included extra crab, and other extra ingredients and implements that had to be purchased to accommodate all the last minute reservations. To avoid having to do this for all future events, please note that the deadline for ticket purchases will be enforced with no exceptions. Nevertheless, we are pleased to hear that everyone enjoyed that Dinner and of course, in keeping with tradition, the Parish will be sharing half of the profits from ticket sales ($4,350.25) with the school. Thank you to Rose Tang, Roberta Beach, Lito Coloma and 2 anonymous donors for their cash & gift card donations for the Raffle. Special Thanks goes to all the Kitchen volunteers and to all those who helped in any way. The Crab Bash wouldn t be a success year after year without the help and support of all the volunteers and patrons. See you next year! Jackie Alcaraz YOUTH MINISTRY CORNER As we digest from these holiday feasts let us prepare for the ones to come! Come check out Youth Group on Saturdays from 1:00-3:00, we meet in the school yard first and have our own room in the Flanagan Center. Let us open the dialog and talk about your everyday lives! There's a lot to chew on!! Peace! Leoul Samson, HN Youth Ministry Coordinator WATER FILTERS FOR SOUTH SUDAN UPDATE Total amount collected: $3, Total amount of water filters purchased COMPLETE with sand and gravel: 15 We raised enough funds not only to purchase 15 complete water filters that will provide a small village with 10 YEARS of safe, drinking water, but it was also enough to cover the costs of the shipping and customs!!!! THANK YOU ALL soooo much. The next phase in this project, is that New Sudan Generation will be sending our professor, who is a geophysics professor, to a one day training class at the International Aid headquarters in St. Louis, so that when he goes to South Sudan in January 2009 he can meet the shipment of water filters there and show them to the Minister of Health of South Sudan. We have also connected with Catholic Relief Services, who are in South Sudan. WE have asked them to partner with us in the training and education on the use of the water filters for the people of South Sudan. (Just like how the NGO, International Aid, and CRS did in Honduras). After the 15 water filters are well under way, the next phase will be in 6 months on a much larger scale. New Sudan Generation along with International Aid and hopefully CRS, will be looking at a fund raising project to raise enough money to purchase 10,000 water filters for all of South Sudan and to have the sand/gravel mined by the local residents of South Sudan, from their own quarry. This is how a developing country can sustain a viable income. It s so true that we are all one BODY. God bless all of you for your generosity and caring. Angela Testani RELIGIOUS EDUCATION PROGRAM On December 20th at 10:30 AM, the students from our Parish Religious Education Program will present their Christmas pageant. We will meet in the Church. Refreshments will follow in the Flanagan Center. Our Religious Education Program will be on Christmas Break from Dec 21-January 9. Classes will resume on January 10, MOVIE NIGHT The Fourth Wise Man Starring Alan Arkin & Martin Sheen December 18, 2008 at 7 PM in the Flanagan Center

5 WELCOME TO HOLY NAME OF JESUS PARISH, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA Page 5 HOLY NAME CHOIR Please join the Holy Name Choir for Karaoke Night on December 12, 2008 (from 7 PM-10:30 PM). We are raising money to help cover the Musicians hired for Special Occasions. Entrance fee is $5.00. For reservations, call Madeline , Sylvia & Louise ADULT FORMATION PROGRAM On December 17, 2008, there will be an Adult Formation Program in the Pastoral Center from 7:30 9 PM. Come All Ye Faithful Where: Flanagan Center When: December 15 th Monday, 7:00 PM-8: 30 PM Who: ALL Faithful Citizens, no matter what age you are. No matter what faith you are. No matter where you live. We are ALL God s children. We ALL were given blessings from our Lord. Do we share them with our neighbor only once a year? Topic: How are we called to serve one another? What can we do as Faithful Citizens in LIVING out the Gospel? We at Holy Name of Jesus have just demonstrated how, when we work together, we can make a difference in someone s life; by the way we rallied to our water filter project. Let s keep this Spirit of Christ alive. The vast majority of people, in any community, are spectators in public life. We seek to live out our values in our private lives, but do not imagine that we have the ability to act in the public arena as well. We may be concerned about decisions made by public officials, and may be directly affected by those decisions, but we feel powerless to do anything about them. As people awaken (through international relationships with others) to their own dignity, they are compelled to move beyond being spectators to becoming leaders in the public arena. Their understanding of who they are, of their self grows exponentially. They are no longer a school aid or a roofer, they are a school aid or a roofer who just met with the mayor. Their renewed sense of their value and that of their neighbors emboldens them to step beyond their private lives into a new and exciting world. A leader is not the most charismatic person in a group, or the most formally educated, or the one with the greatest social status. A leader is the one who leaves the television behind to sit in a church hall with others, and who visits their neighbor. There are many of these kinds of leaders, faithful citizens, in our Parish of Holy Name. Let s pool our energies together and as one Body in Christ, let s LIVE out our Faith. I look forward in seeing ALL of you at our next Faithful Citizen meeting. We meet only once a month and the date/time is not set-in-stone, so let s talk about that at our next meeting. God bless, and have a Holy and Merry Christmas, Angela Testani CATECHISM CORNER by Jerry Back As mentioned in last week's column, Catechism Corner will be devoted over the next few weeks to understanding more fully the meaning of Advent by sharing some of the Catechism's many teachings pertaining to the arrival of Jesus. Question: Why did the Word become flesh? Answer from the Catechism of the Catholic Church (paragraphs ): 457 The Word became flesh for us in order to save us by reconciling us with God, who "loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins": "the Father has sent his Son as the Savior of the world", and "he was revealed to take away sins": "Sick, our nature demanded to be healed; fallen, to be raised up; dead, to rise again. We had lost the possession of the good; it was necessary for it to be given back to us. Closed in the darkness, it was necessary to bring us the light; captives, we awaited a Savior; prisoners, help; slaves, a liberator. Are these things minor or insignificant? Did they not move God to descend to human nature and visit it, since humanity was in so miserable and unhappy a state?" -- St. Gregory of Nyssa 458 The Word became flesh so that thus we might know God's love: "In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him." "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." 459 The Word became flesh to be our model of holiness: "Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me." "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me." On the mountain of the Transfiguration, the Father commands: "Listen to him!" Jesus is the model for the Beatitudes and the norm of the new law: "Love one another as I have loved you." This love implies an effective offering of oneself, after his example. 460 The Word became flesh to make us "partakers of the divine nature": "For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a son of God." "For the Son of God became man so that we might become God." "The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might make men gods."

6 HOLY NAME OF JESUS PARISH san Francisco, ca Christmas Schedule CHRISTMAS EVE MASSES Wednesday, December 24 5:00 PM (Family {Children s}mass) 7:00 PM (Vietnamese Mass) 11:30 PM Christmas Carols Holy Name Choral Ministry 12:00 MIDNIGHT Pontifical High Mass Most Reverend Ignatius C. Wang, Main Celebrant CHRISTMAS DAY MASSES Thursday, December 25 7:30 AM 9:30 AM 11:30 AM NEW YEAR S DAY MASS Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God (Not a Holy Day of Obligation) Thursday, January 1 9:30 AM Confessions Saturday, December 13, :30-5:00 PM Sunday, December 14, 2008 ½ hour before 7:30 AM, 9:30 AM and 11:30 AM Masses Saturday, December 20, :00 5:00 PM READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Gn 3:9-15, 20; Ps 98; Eph 1:3-6, 11-12; Lk 1:26-38 Tuesday: Is 40:1-11; Mt 18:12-14 Wednesday: Is 40:25-31; Mt 11:28-30 Thursday: Is 41:13-20; Mt 11:11-15 Friday: Zec 2:14-17 or Rv 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab; Lk 1:26-38 or Lk 1:39-47, or any readings from the Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary, nos Saturday: Sir 48:1-4, 9-11; Mt 17:9a, Sunday: Is 61:1-2a, 10-11; Lk 1:46-50, 53-54; 1 Thes 5:16-24; Jn 1:6-8, WALK FOR LIFE The 5th Annual Walk for Life West Coast will be on January 24, Please join us for the 5th Walk For Life West Coast as we highlight the presence of our pro-life high school students. For more info., please visit SUNDAY OFFERTORY COLLECTION 11/30/08 Last Sunday s Collection: $4, THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING OUR PARISH! HOLY NAME SCHOOL Dear Holy Name Families, I hope you all enjoyed your Thanksgiving dinner as much as we enjoyed the activity around our school on Wednesday, November 26 th. The classrooms and hallways smelled wonderful, the food was delicious and everyone had a happy, festive time. Thank you to all the room parents who provided a wonderful feast for each and every class. During the next three weeks Holy Name students will be involved in a variety of Christmas giving activities. We like for our students to be aware of people less fortunate than them, and these activities help to develop a sense of service to others. The activities are described throughout the bulletin. Mr. Tony Eiras and his students are preparing for another wonderful Christmas Concert, which will include, once again, a full orchestra. Please join the Holy Name School Community in our Church a week from Thursday, December 11 th, at 7 p.m. as we celebrate the spirit of Christmas. God bless you during this Advent season. Sincerely, Mrs. Judy Cosmos HOLY NAME FAMILIES HELPING OTHERS HOLY NAME GIVING TREE FUNDRAISER The Student Council is sponsoring a Free Dress Friday this week, December 5 th. The money raised will be used to purchase gifts for the less fortunate from the Holy Name Church giving tree. The cost is $2.00. We appreciate your support. ADVENT Each child brought home a cardboard carton to fill with money for the children of the missions. One example of how your donation is used is $4.00 buys bread for ten children for one week. CHRIST CHILD LAYETTE DRIVE Our manger is up and ready to display new baby items that will be donated to the Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women (ACCW). Items benefit needy mothers and their newborns throughout the year. ONE WARM COAT The One Warm Coat Drive has begun. Please see the enclosed flyer. Coats are donated to St. Anthony Foundation. PANTHER SALUTES Holy Name School will be supporting American troops deployed overseas. Students are asked to contribute to care packages that the school is assembling. Students teachers will provide details on what to bring. GIRL SCOUTS The Girl Scouts are collecting new, unwrapped non-violent toys for children ages newborn to 18 years old. These are for children in foster care. Please call Troop Leader, Ana Rosario at (415) or her at bennygirl19@yahoo.com

7 Laser-Com Cover Sheet Church Name: Holy Name of Jesus Location: San Francisco, CA Bulletin #: Date: December 7, 2008 Phone #: (415) Modem #: (415) Printer : Using Acrobat 4.0 Bulletin Editor: Jackie Alcaraz Comments or request: Trans: Wednesday, DECEMBER 3, 2008 at 9:25 AM Phone: (562)