St. Peter Claver Parish

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1 St. Peter Claver Parish Corner of Cochran & Stow Streets Pastor: Rev. Riz J. Carranza archdiocese.org Associate Pastor: Rev. Adrian M. San Juan - archdiocese.org Permanent Deacons: Rev. Mr. Brian Clements and Rev. Mr. Melecio Zamora PARISH SCHEDULE MASSES: Saturday: 5pm Vigil; 7pm (Español) Sunday: 8am; 10am; 12noon & 5pm Holy Day of Obligation: 5pm Eve before; Day-7:30am; 12noon & 7pm Weekdays: 7:30am (Monday - Friday) DEVOTIONS: Perpetual Help Novena, Wednesdays, 7pm, Mass on first Wednesdays, 7pm; Adoration every Friday, 7pm SACRAMENT OF PENANCE: Saturdays, 3-4:30pm (or by appointment); Eve of Holy Day & Thursday before first Friday, 4-4:45pm SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM: Sundays, 1:30 pm; 4th Sunday - Spanish Baptism BAPTISM INSTRUCTION: Second Monday of each month, 7pm SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE: 6 months prior notification needed Parish Mission Statement We, the parish of Saint Peter Claver, are a Catholic faith community within the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and the Universal Church. Firm in the hope of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and inspired by the example of our patron, we proclaim the kingdom of God to embrace everyone in love without discrimination of any kind. We are devoted to worship, to witness, and joyful service in the Spirit. Parish Office Address: 5649 Pittman St. Simi Valley, CA Parish Office hours: (Monday - Friday) 9am-12noon, & 1-5pm Phone: (805) Fax: (805) saintpeterclaver@aol.com Web Site: Bulletin spcbulletin@aol.com Pre-School & Kindergarten: Lauren Balcaceres, Principal lbalcaceres@la- archdiocese.org (805) Fax: (805) Website: Office of Faith Formation: Bianca Langlois, Director (805) faithformation@saintpeterclaver.org Jon Teague, Coordinator Middle School Youth Ministry jon.t@saintpeterclaver.org Confirmation / Youth Ministry Office: Andrew Gafvert, Director (805) youthministry@saintpeterclaver.org

2 Safeguard the Children Committee: Clyde Allen, Chair Bible Study: Richard Kimmet, Women s Adult Bible Study: Sherry Kimmet, Becoming Catholic (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults): Office of Faith Formation, Parish Vocation Animator: Michael Johnson, Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion: Coley Maddigan, Coordinator, Peter and Gloria Venzon, Scheduling, Lector Coordinator: Jim Small, (805) Altar Servers: Brian Kane, Eucharistic Ministry of Hosp. & Home: Joni Egan, Parish Library: Sue Marron, (805) Parish Information Bereavement Ministry: Paul Stewart, Annulment Assistance: Wally & Linda Cravens, Knights of Columbus: Joe Gray, (818) kofc9410@gmail.com Society of St. Vincent de Paul: For assistance: (805) Music Director: Jim Leslie, (818) Couples for Christ: Chito & Beth Coronel, Filipino Catholic Comm. Group: Vangie Carlos, (805) Hispanic Catholic Community Group: Dcn. Melecio Zamora, (818) Las Guadalupanas: Pilar Osorio, (310) Worldwide Marriage Encounter: J.C. and Chelsea Baxter, (805) BINGO: Thursday, 6:30pm BINGO hotline: My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples. The familiar is what s most comfortable to us. That s why we encircle ourselves with family, friends, parish, and neighborhood as a mini-solar-system we depend on to keep us in orbit. There s solace in our kind, and security in the known. The world, however, is always bigger than our clan. The Israelites got a taste of that after they returned from exile in Babylon. While the elders longed to escape the exotic realm of foreigners and get back to their land and their traditional ways, that wasn t going to be simple. After a generation in Babylon, many of their children had intermarried. Their own children were complete strangers to Israel. The foreigner, it seemed, was now also family. How should they deal with this new reality? Some promoted the divorce of all Babylonian wives and the banishing of their children. Isaiah spoke for a more compassionate and realistic course: to advance the definition of Israel to include all those faithful to their God and their story. If God makes room for the other, who are we to deny them? Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I glory in my ministry. Are you a perfectionist, or do you live with one? You have my sympathy in either case. One thing is clear from every biblical description of the Pharisees: they didn t have a lot of sympathy for folks they deemed unclean. As seekers of moral perfection under the law of Moses, they avoided any who might contaminate their purity: sinners, the sick, women, and outsiders. We have a greater appreciation for Paul, a zealous Pharisee, in his decision to offer his life for the sake of the outside world Jews referred to as Gentiles, meaning the nations. After his encounter with the risen Lord, Paul spent the rest of his days eating with, living with, and pouring himself out for the unclean others he d previously avoided at all cost. Paul had too many experiences of how God selected Gentiles to receive the Holy Spirit to refuse them a share in the gospel. As the saying goes, only Nixon could go to China. It took a Pharisee like Paul to take the gospel to the nations. Oh woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish. Even Jesus was impressed by the foreign woman who pursued Him for a healing for her daughter. As we know from reading the gospels, Jesus had His hands full in daily dealings with His fellow Jews. In fact, He withdrew from Jewish territory into Tyre and Sidon precisely to get a respite from that often-thankless battle. No wonder He s not anxious to respond when this Gentile comes running after Him with her needs! Matthew calls her a Canaanite, the ancient name for the native Palestinians from whom Israel had taken the land. (Luke calls her a Syro-Phoenician, which is how she might have described herself.) Canaanite was a slur, not much different from how Jesus compares her to a dog begging for scraps. Displaying more love than pride, the woman argues that even a dog gets the scraps if it begs enough. Jesus rewards her great faith. We can be sure that such faith will be rewarded in the many outsiders who cry out to God today for the compassion they are denied elsewhere.

3 Page Three August 20, 2017 My dear Parishioners, Mindful of what has been going on in Charlottesville, Virginia, all the violence that has transpired in that place, we are really seeing the disregard to human dignity and respect for human life. I am convinced that the love of God is the only way that can curb this violence and restore peace in the land. The love of God will surely bring that awareness that God can be found in the other person. Jesus revealed that truth to us by telling us with authority that whatever we do to the least of our sisters and brothers, we do unto Him! Let us continue to pray for our country that we as people of good will work together to bring the reality of God in all segments of our society, in our community and in our family. Here, I continue another excerpt from the Pastoral Letter of Archbishop Gomez: God is taken with love: Why the world was created and why we were made 8. The whole Christian religion comes down to one truth. We believe in a personal God who wants to share his life with us, a God who comes in search of us, who calls us to seek him and comes to help us find him. Christian faith is the personal response we make to the God who has humbled himself to take on human flesh being born of a mother s womb and raised in a human family, working with human hands and sharing in all the joys and sorrows of human life, even the extremes of physical and emotional suffering and death. [St. John Paul II, Tertio Millennio Adveniente, Apostolic Letter on Preparation for the Jubilee Year 2000 (November 10, 1994), 6 7] The question we need to ask ourselves is this: Why would the eternal and Almighty God go to such extremes to empty himself and make himself totally available and vulnerable, to put himself out there as a helpless infant? Why would he allow himself to be handed over to endure rejection and violence at the hands of the creatures that he himself created? What could make God do that? This is the mystery of divine love. No other explanation can make sense of it. His love is so impossible to imagine that some saints have described God like a divine suitor who is madly in love with us. The Bible, in fact, uses a similar image describing God s love for us as the love of a Bridegroom for his beloved. St. Catherine of Siena was so astonished by God s love for her that she was lifted into prayer: You are taken with love for her, for by love indeed you created her, by love you have given her a being capable of tasting your eternal good. [St. Catherine, Dialogue, 13; quoted in Catechism, 356] Love is why God created the world. The world is made for the glory of God and the world was made out of love! What God makes he loves and delights in, and all of nature is like a book through which God reveals his love for us. St. Thomas Aquinas said: Creatures came into existence when the Key of Love opened his hand. And Pope Francis tells us: The entire material universe speaks of God s love, his boundless affection for us. [Commentary on the Sentences, prol.; quoted in Catechism] And love is why God creates each one of us. We are not made as anonymous members of the human race. To each one of us, the living God continues to speak words of love, as he spoke to the prophets: I have loved you with an everlasting love. [Jer. 31:3] Peace, Fr. Riz

4 Page Four St. Peter Claver Monday, August 21st 6:30 pm Misioneros de Cristo Prayer Group (PC) 7:00 pm Baptism Class (C) (Español) Tuesday, August 22nd 6:30 pm St. Vincent de Paul Meeting (PC) 6:30 pm Misioneros Bible Study (PC) 6:30 pm Hispanic Community Prayer Group (PC) 7:00 pm Yr. 1 Confirmation Orientation and Registration (YC) 7:00 pm Young Adult Ministry (PC) 7:00 pm Claver Coffeehouse (PC) 7:00 pm Bereavement Support Group (CLR) 7:00 pm Divine Mercy Committee Meeting (O) 7:00 pm Adult Music Ministry (C) Wednesday, August 23rd 7:00 pm Small Group Leader Training - (Women s Bible Study) (PC) 7:00 pm Perpetual Help Novena and Divine Mercy Chaplet (C) 7:00 pm Yr. 2 Confirmation Orientation and Registration (YC) 7:00 pm Boy Scouts (H) Thursday, August 24th 6:00 pm Children s Choir (C) 6:30 pm BINGO 7:00 pm Noon Choir (C) 7:00 pm YM Peer Leader Retreat Team Meeting (YC) Friday, August 25th 4:00 pm YM Annual Peer Leader Retreat (YC, S) 6:30 pm Divine Mercy Chaplet (C) 6:30 pm Couples for Christ (PC) 7:00 pm Holy Hour (C) 7:00 pm Hispanic Community Choir (PC) Saturday, August 26th 8:00 am Catholic Mothers in Prayer (S) 9:00 am 45th Anniversary Choir Practice (C) 9:00 am Catechist In-Service Day (PC) 3:00 pm Confessions (C) 4:00 pm Eucharistic Miracles Presentation and Display (H) 4:15 pm Choir Practice (C) 6:15 pm Confessions (Español) (C) Thank you for your donations on the weekend of August 12th/13th: Saturday, August 12th, 5pm $2, Saturday, August 12th, 7pm $ Sunday, August 13th, 8am $2, Sunday, August 13th, 10am $3, Sunday, August 13th, 12(noon) $1, Sunday, August 13th, 5pm $1, Online Giving (35) $1, Total: $14, Adult Women s Bible Study sign-ups after all Masses Parish Lending Library after 8:00am, 10:00am and 12(noon) Masses Confirmation Catechist Specialization, 9:00am RCIA 12(noon) Baptisms, 1:30pm Ultreya, 2:00pm Youth Choir, 4:00pm Youth First Communion Orientation and Registration, 7:00pm Saturday, August 19th 5:00 pm Loretta Berger (RIP) Sunday, August 20th 10:00 am Fernando Corpuz (RIP) Margaret O Hern (RIP) 12(noon) Mary Catania (RIP) Maria Giuseppe Pacifici (RIP) 5:00 pm Joseph Luevanos (RIP) Mark Oliver (INT) Monday, August 21st 7:30am Barbara Nespor (RIP) JoAnn Sutermeister (RIP) Jerry Myszkowski (INT) Tuesday, August 22nd 7:30 am Filomena Papili (RIP) Jo King (RIP) Jeanette Miserendino (RIP) Wednesday, August 23rd 7:30 am LCpl R.J. Newton (RIP) Tom Flick (RIP) Ed Donnelly (RIP) Thursday, August 24th 7:30 am Parra Tuturise Family (INT) Gus Rogers (RIP) Carlos Garcia (RIP) Friday, August 25th 7:30 am Laura Altieri (RIP) Doug Rodman (RIP) Leslie Ilagan (RIP)

5 Page Five St. Peter Claver SPCFAITHFORMATION.ORG The Office of Faith Formation is open Monday - Thursday, 1-5pm and 6-8pm. Sunday Gospel Matthew 15:21-28 Like the Canaanite woman, be persistent in presenting your prayers to God, and be rooted in the confidence that God is able to provide all that we need. Saturday, August 26 th, Catechist in-service in the West Hall from 9am-3pm. Parent Orientation and Registration for Elementary First Communion, Years 1 & 2, are Wednesday, 9/6, East Hall, 7pm; Tuesday, 9/12, West Hall, 7pm; and Monday, 9/18, in the East Hall at 7pm. You need only attend one meeting. Mark your calendars! Missions of Mercy June 22 nd, 23 rd, and 24 th, 2018! Our kickoff session for the year will be on Monday, October 9th! Please keep checking your s and our website for information regarding orientation nights and other events! Our Sacramental Preparation Orientation and Registration Nights Have Begun! Our Orientation and Registration Nights for Yr. 1 Confirmation, Yr. 2 Confirmation and Youth First Communion continue this week, beginning with a Youth First Communion Orientation and Registration Night from 7-8:30 pm in the Youth Center tonight, Sunday, August 20 th. Please visit our website, spcym.org, for details. All Orientation and Registration Nights are to be attended by potential participants and a parent or guardian. A Life Changing Opportunity Energy. Excitement. Adventure. Faith. Fellowship. Holiness. Would you like to experience more of any of these qualities in your life? Then look no further than St. Peter Claver Youth Ministry, where you can experience all this and more, helping young people grow in their Catholic faith. There are a variety of volunteer roles and time commitments to choose from, so whatever your interest and availability may be, we d love to hear from you. Give us a call at (805) or shoot us an at youthministry@saintpeterclaver.org today, that they might have life and have it more abundantly (John 10:10). Young Adult? Come join the St Peter Claver St John Paul II Society for an evening of fun, conversation and prayer. Tuesday, August 22 nd, 2017 in Room 3 of the Parish Center. Contact Coley Maddigan or John Miller for more information at saintpeterjpii@gmail.com Thinking about becoming fully Catholic? Never been baptized? Baptized in a different faith? Baptized Catholic but never confirmed and/or received first communion? Then the RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults) is just for you! Come to CLAVER COFFEEHOUSE, our twice-monthly gathering for inquirers (2 nd & 4 th Tuesdays), and bring your questions. Call the Faith Formation Office at (805) for more information.

6 Page Six St. Peter Claver Observe what is right, do what is just; for my salvation is about to come, my justice, about to be revealed. ~ Isaiah 56:1...of our parish and Msgr. Gary Bauler Your Favorite Photographic Memories Needed! Many of us have great memories of being a parishioner at St. Peter Claver, including Baptisms, First Communions, Confirmations, Weddings, Parish Picnics, and Parish and Organization events. We are looking for pictures for our photographic collage to be shown at the 45 th Anniversary and Msgr. Gary Bauler s 50 th Anniversary of his Ordination Celebration on September 9 th. Where to send: If you have images you would like to share, please scan and send to Erika Calloway at spcanniversary@gmail.com. Thank you! Please pray for the health of Patrick Kochie; Cathi Hagen; Colleen Miller; Carolyn Murray; Shealeen Payne; Lee Harrison; Jody Allen; Fred Hagen; Stephanie Carvalho; Richard Brian Reilly; Winifred Schiemann; James Carbon; Walter Swiacki; Beverly Grimes; newborn Carson Jacob Reed; Melissa Reed; Georgia Altmayer; Judy Strack; Marlu Vencio; Barbara Still; Christina Barnes-Parker; child Seth Fabry; Rosina Paluzzi; Jack Murphy; Bill and Vera Barker; Chris Bordeleau; David Placeres; Bob Hasley; Donna Emmons; Natali Wilde; Ronald Bensky; Phyllis Sherin; Carol Acker; David Lehr; Bridget Wakcher; Frank Cesario; Dana Freund; Jim Womack; Justin Warn; Linda Lynch; Bradley Sharp; Erick M., Jacob A., and Cecilia Frances; Diane Hazlewood; Marie Fardig; Bud Upper; Carla Maria Molina; Dave Morley; Kenny Bond; Gary Savas; (child) Hazel Hammersley; Mary Jane Wickman; LaVonne Emerson; James Yncera; Charles Leo; Sheana Green; Deann Glynn; Dan Lang; Joe Ortega; Dan Boland; Catherine Capaldi; Gregg Cassity; Virginia Dalcoe; Bruce Vandelinder; Susan Womack; Helene Parlms-Jackson; Maria Lozano; Carolyn Currie; Chelsea White; Mary Smart; Mimi McGilvray; Rick Schuler; Elaine Swieca; Bill Waters; Marge Porterfield; Aaron Byron; Bob Bower; Jacqueline Sylvestre; Kittie Fidermutz; Martina Peters; Dillon Tunney; Barbara Pogorzelski; Sherry Estrella; Chase Dobson; Loretta Payne; Barbara Knight; Suzanne Shaefer. The Walking with Purpose parish program at St. Peter Claver Catholic Church is introducing a new session this fall: Opening Your Heart. This foundational, 22-week course is designed for women who are new to WWP as well as those with more Bible study experience. We welcome past participants and invite new women to join us! In addition to Opening Your Heart, our parish will also offer Touching the Divine, that focuses on the qualities of Jesus through the Book of John. Walking with Purpose is a Catholic Bible study that aims to bring women to a deeper, personal relationship with Christ through personal study and small group discussions that link our everyday challenges with solutions given to us through the teachings of Christ and the Catholic Church. Opening Your Heart will be offered Tuesdays at 7pm. Touching the Divine will be offered Wednesdays at 9:30am and 7:30pm beginning October 3 rd and 4 th. We will have a Connect Coffee to get acquainted on Wednesday, September 27 th at 7pm. Please bring a friend! There will be registration and questions answered on the church plaza after every Mass this weekend. Hope to see you there! Please pray for the souls of Lillian McCormack, 8/14/17; infant Kaylee Dean Bayne, 8/11/17; Aznif Haddad, 8/10/17; George Callow, 8/24/16; Maria Zibecchi, 8/23/16; Encarnacion Perez, 8/23/15; Daniel Polino, 8/21/15; Frederick "Fritz" Bystrom, 8/21/13; William Mahorney, 8/21/13; Ralph Mosesso, 8/20/13; Louise DeRose, 8/25/12; Hugo Adlhoch, 8/24/12; Catherine McGowan, 8/21/12; John Vosse, 8/23/11; Eileen Mackey, 8/24/10; Robert Montanez, 8/22/09; Miriam McGilvray, 8/24/08; Robert Laney, 8/23/08; Georgia Dotta, 8/21/06; John Mallon, Sr., 8/26/05; Adassa Nairne, 8/24/05; Terrence Howard, 8/23/04; Jeanne Polisner, 8/25/02; Sergio Maristela, 8/22/02; Franklin Baking, 8/20/02; Louis Mosca, 8/25/01; Sharon Ross, 8/22/00; John Scheurn, 8/22/99; Edward Carey, 8/26/94; Roland Ouellette, 8/20/93; Lois Bierig, 8/26/90; James Reese, 8/26/90; Clarence Singer, Jr., 8/24/90; Carlos Ordonez, 8/22/89; Kimberly Atwell, 8/22/83; Henry Herbert, 8/21/83; Eulogio Ortiz, 8/26/77; Aurora Ortiz, 8/26/77; Nicholas Willm, 8/21/73.

7 Page Seven St. Peter Claver Nik Alexander was with us this past week securing advertisers for our Bulletin. We would like to thank all of the advertisers who have renewed their ads for the upcoming year and also to all of our new advertisers who have generously committed to the Bulletin for this year. If you would be interested in sponsoring an ad for your business or on behalf of your favorite charity / organization there is still time. Please contact Nik Alexander on his mobile phone at (303) As a reminder, we ask that all of our members utilize these wonderful advertisers whenever possible. Please use the Bulletin as a resource whenever you are in need of products or services. Please let them know we truly appreciate their loyal support of our Bulletin. It is their generosity that provides the Bulletin at little or no cost to our Church. The Jubilee Year of Mercy is now in the history books and looking back I wonder if I have been changed at all by the observance. Certainly the focus on mercy wasn't all about God's mercy toward me? Yes, I focused on my sin and the need for God's forgiveness and grace, but hopefully that changed how I live my life and how I offer mercy to others. The mercy we receive from God is not something we are to keep bottled up or hidden from others. Jesus taught us to treat others the way we would like to be treated and to love everyone, even our enemies. When Jesus healed the Canaanite woman I wonder what she did next. I would hope she in turn offered mercy and healing to others. Of course, I know she was imperfect just like me so I am sure in no time she was back to needing the mercy of Jesus. Her demon was gone, but there is always a new evil around every corner. However, the fact that we are a broken people always in need of mercy does not lessen the command for us to offer mercy. Mercy is a gift like so many others that God lavishes on us with great generosity. We are called to cultivate this and share it with others as well. If we cannot do that then what was the real effect of God's mercy in our lives? If we do not allow God to change us into more generous stewards ready to offer mercy and love to all, then perhaps we are fooling ourselves that we are true disciples of Jesus at all. ~Tracy Earl Welliver, MTS It is never a question with any of us of faith or no faith; the question always is, In what or in whom do I put my faith? ~Anonymous The Italian Catholic Federation will have a charity event at 7pm in St. Rose of Lima s Church. We will be raising money for the Fabry family, whose six-year-old son/grandson is fighting leukemia. Come enjoy a performance by St. Rose s Children s and Adult Choir, The Reflections Questions: Rita Downey (805) Barbara Tweedy (805) It s time to put on those bowling shoes and have some fun! The Knights of Columbus Bowling League is looking forward to another season and we are hoping for new members to join us. You don t have to be a good bowler we have bowlers with higher averages and bowlers who are new to the sport. With our handicapping system, we are all equal. It is more a social evening than competitive! All are welcome; you don t have to be a Knight. Bowling is Thursday evenings September through May. We can answer all of your questions. Please call Kay Roessig at ( ) and leave a message.

8 Page Eight St. Peter Claver Beginning Experience is a healing ministry for men and women who have experienced the loss of a spouse through death, divorce or separa on. A Beginning Experience weekend will be held on September 8-10, 2017, at Holy Spirit Retreat Center in Encino. This program helps a person move from the darkness of grief into the light of a new beginning with renewed hope. Beginning Experience is recognized by the Office of Family Life for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Please call in advance to register: Peg at (818) , Brenda at (818) or Maria at (310) (Spanish). Los Angeles chapter beginningexp.losangeles@gmail.com Beginning Experience ministry website: ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 ND AT 11am, a special Mass and anointing of the sick will be held for seniors and those in poor health. The Anointing of the Sick is not a sacrament for those only who are at the point of death. Hence, as soon as anyone of the faithful begins to be in danger of death from sickness or old age, the fitting time for him to receive this sacrament has certainly already arrived. If a sick person who received this anointing recovers his health, he can in the case of another grave illness receive this sacrament again. If during the same illness the person s condition becomes more serious, the sacrament may be repeated. It is fitting to receive the Anointing of the Sick just prior to a serious operation. The same holds for the elderly whose frailty becomes more pronounced. Food assistance for qualifying seniors What are Senior Kits? - Senior Kits are free boxes of food distributed once per month to qualifying seniors. Each box weighs pounds and contains canned fruits and vegetables; juice; canned meat and fish; beans or peanut butter; cheese; pasta or rice; cereal or oats; and shelf-stable milk. Where can I get Senior Kits? - The Simi Valley location is the Simi Valley Senior Center, 3900 Avenida Simi, Simi Valley, on the 2 nd Thursday of each month, from 9-11am. Home delivery is not available for this program. Each applicant is responsible for finding someone to pick up his/her food. Applicants must be present at the first distribution to register, then once a year for recertification. There are some eligibility requirements; applicants must be age 60 or older; reside in Ventura county (participants do not need to be United States citizens) and must meet the Senior Income Guidelines. Please see the bi-lingual Senior Kits flyers in the flyer racks near the main doors of the church for more details, and other distribution locations outside of Simi Valley. St. Peter Claver Parish is dedicated to the mission of protecting all God s children. One way of acting on this mission is to offer opportunities for education and screening to those called to serve the young of our community. If your volunteering plans include working with children in the coming months plan ahead! Our next opportunities here at St. Peter Claver will be Friday, September 15 th (for fingerprinting), Wednesday, September 13 th (for the initial VIRTUS certification) and Saturday, September 16 th (for VIRTUS re-certification). For more information or to make an appointment, please call Mary in the parish office at

9 Page Nine St. Peter Claver Asistencia alimentaria para personas de tercera edad calificadas Que son los Senior Kits? - Los Senior Kits son cajas de alimentos gratis para las personas de tercera eded que califican. Cada caja pesa libras y contiene frutas y verduras anlatades; jugo; carne y pescado enlatado; frijoles o crema de cacahuate; queso; pasta o arroz; cereal o avena; la leche esterilizada de larga duración. Donde puedo conseguir los Senior Kits? - En Simi Valley, se puede visitar el Simi Valley Senior Center, 3900 Avenida Simi, 2 jueves de cada mes, de 9am a 11am. Debe tener 60 años o más, y usted debe residir en el Condado de Ventura (los participantes no necesitan ser ciudadanos de los Estados Unidos), y debe cumplir con las Directrices de ingresos para personas mayores. Por favor vea los folletos bilingües de Senior Kits en las estanterías de volantes cerca de las puertas de la iglesia principal para obtener más detalles y otras ubicaciones de distribución fuera de Simi Valley. VIVIR LA LITURGIA - Frecuentemente, nuestras relaciones necesitan reconciliación y sanación. Aunque sea fácil de decir, en muchas ocasiones es difícil de lograr. A veces, la reconciliación requiere que destruyamos las barreras, deshagamos nuestros prejuicios, no enfocarnos en las diferencias y ver la similitud que nos conecta el uno al otro. Cada persona tiene que estar dispuesto de hacer esto para que haya una sanación verdadera. Nuestro Evangelio nos demuestra cuanta sanación puede ocurrir si los dos partidos están dispuestos a reparar su relación. To change the world we must be good to those who cannot repay us. ~ Pope Francis Thursday Nights In the Parish Center Doors open at 4:30pm - Games begin at 6:30pm All games pay $250 - Major Credit Cards accepted - Phone: (805) Enséñeles a los niños cuándo decir algo - Es importante ayudar a los niños a comprender la diferencia entre contar algo sobre los demás y compartir información que podría ayudar a mantenerse a sí mismos o a otra persona a salvo. Enseñe a los niños sobre los secretos que está bien no contar (una fiesta de cumpleaños sorpresa), y los secretos que nunca están bien (no decirle a mamá o papá que...), y, quizás lo más importante, qué hacer si alguien les pide que mantengan en secreto algo malo. Hablar puede salvar a un niño de daño o abuso. Para solicitar una copia del artículo de VIRTUS To Tattle or Protect (Chismear o proteger), envíe un correo electrónico a bmelendez@la-archdiocese.org o llame al (213) Teach kids when to say something - It is important to help children understand the difference between telling on others and sharing information that could help keep themselves or someone else safe. Teach children about secrets that are okay (a surprise birthday party), and secrets that are never okay (don t tell mom or dad that...), and, perhaps most importantly, what to do if someone asks them to keep a bad secret. Speaking up can save a kid from harm or abuse. To request a copy of the VIRTUS article To Tattle or Protect jvienna@la-archdiocese.org or call (213)

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