St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception and the Spirituality Council. Fr. Thomas Reese, SJ. This Week...

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1 August 6, 2017 St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception and the Spirituality Council The Transfiguration of the Lord This Week... are delighted to welcome the return of Fr. Thomas Reese, SJ Sun. 6 2nd Collection-School Support Coffee & Donuts after all am Masses Malankara Mass 1 p Youth Choir Practice 4 p Mon. 7 Tue. 8 Adoration & Evening Prayer 6 p Women s Support Group 6:30 p Small Christian Community 6:30 a Women s Spirituality Group 8 a Centering Prayer 7 p Wed. 9 Organ Practice 4:30 p Fr. Tom Reese, SJ presentation for a presentation POPE FRANCIS AFTER FOUR AND ONE-HALF YEARS: HIS IMPACT ON THE CHURCH AND WORLD Wednesday, August 9, :00-8:30 p.m. St. Mary s Hofmann Center Thu. 10 Fri. 11 Sat. 12 Centering Prayer 4 p SMS Mens Club 5 p ICF meeting 6 p Men s Faith Sharing 6:30 a Bible Study 8 a Adoration 3 p 2nd Collection-Pastoral Solidarity Fund for the Church in Africa Reconciliation 3:30 p Fr. Tom is a reporter with the National Catholic Reporter and the author of several books including, Inside the Vatican: The Politics and Organization of the Catholic Church Welcome to St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception For more detailed information about what is happening now and in the future at St. Mary go to our online calendar on our website or on the computer in the parish office. Registration Forms can be found online, in the vestibule of the church or in the Parish Office. Sun. 13 2nd Collection-Pastoral Solidarity Fund for the Church in Africa Malankara Mass 1 p Youth Choir Practice 4 p Mass Times Daily: Mon - Sat 7:30 am Saturday (Vigil): 5 pm Sunday: 7:30, 9 & 11:15 am and 5 pm Reconciliation: 3:30 pm on Saturdays Rosary prayed after 7:30am daily mass 219 Bean Avenue Los Gatos, California fx

2 Stewardship is the grateful response of a Christian disciple who recognizes and receives God s gifts and shares these gifts of love of God and neighbor. During the summer we go on vacations, go to the beach, visit family and friends and more. Using Online Giving provides an opportunity to continue your regular giving while you are away or just happen to forget your envelope. H av e yo u signed up? stmaryslg.org/donate We have already had a great start on what can be a relatively easy solution. Online Giving. Why Online Giving? It gives the parish a consistent and predictable revenue stream. This year, we would like to get every family using online giving. It s easy to do Sign Up NOW! THANK YOU to those who have already signed up. If you were receiving envelopes please contact Lisa - llawson@stmaryslg.org to discontinue them. We are only at 25% of our goal for Scheduled Giving users signed up to date! Memory Bricks 12 new Memory Bricks were recently installed in front of the church. The time and material installation was generously donated by Carlo Martina and his son, Sean, of Carlo Martina Landscaping. Memory Bricks are a great way to remember a special event, person or loved one in our community. When you purchase a brick your contributions fund our Parish and School buildings & grounds upkeep and improvements. Information and order form can be found on our website at s t m a r y s l g. o r g / b r i c k - o r d e r - f o r m. Second Collection - August 13 Pastoral Solidarity Fund for the Church in Africa Africa faces the economic and social hurdles of enormous debt, epidemic, severe poverty, and political unrest. Funds collected support schools, evangelization and outreach projects, and education of clergy and religious in Africa. Text Giving is now Available... What does this mean? If you have not yet signed up for ConnectNow Online Giving, or even if you have, we are now also providing the ability to text your donation to the Sunday Collection as well as Christmas, Easter and 2nd collections. Number to text to: Text the amount you would like to give to your church s designated number ( For other than Sunday Collection Read Tips Below ). 2. If you are a first time text-giving donor, or not signed up for ConnectNow Giving currently, you will be prompted to visit a secure URL. 3. Once you click the registration link, you will enter your credit or debit card information. 4. At this point your donation will process. 5. You will see a confirmation text showing your donation and registration were successful. Important Tips for Tex t Giving If you only text a monetary value, the funds are attributed to your church s Sunday Collection. (Ex: $50 = will go to default fund- Sunday Collection) If you text Funds you will receive a reply text including a list of the fund names they can choose to donate to. If you text the amount + fund name the funds will be attributed to that fund name. (Ex: $10 Building) If the fund name you texted does not matchyou will receive a message with a list of fund names for you to choose from. Respond with the number of the correlating fund. If you text Help you will receive a reply text that states: To give enter the amount you want to give, such as 100. You can also give to a specific fund by typing it after your amount, such as 100 building fund. If you text Reset you will receive a reply text that states: Saved card information successfully removed. Please register your card information again when making your next gift by texting an amount to this number.

3 Summer s End Do popular songs today ever refer to summer s end like they did in the 50 s and 60 s? Probably not, though if you read this and are aware of any recent composers musings on these sentiments, I d be inclined to listen. Those songs that used a common experience of the time often played at the strings of those lucky enough to experience a summer romance. Songs like, Will I See You in September by the Happenings or Girl Don t Tell Me by the Beach Boys. As a youth it felt like the summer days slowly blended into the never ending quilt of work at home or school. Magical as it may have seemed, the truth of what really mattered then centered mostly in the memories that we made of summer, not so much the times between. Like the times we d ride to Stevens Creek Reservoir from Santa Clara and jump off the spill way to say that we rode all the way there to go swimming we thought it was the only adventure we d ever have. Or when we took the big trips over to Santa Cruz or Tahoe for a family vacation. Going away from home is a big transition for youngsters, but having these experiences allows them to perceive their aptitude and begin to make the best of it so to find their place among their peers hopefully in a welcoming and caring community. This is the way we learn personal responsibility and choose to follow a life vocation. It is the way all of reach individual autonomy and can be in the world unafraid. These are days of endless summer, chasing surf with long evenings among friends around campfires singing in four-part harmony. Sometimes we cannot keep from the attractive power of singing together in full heart and voice. Music has such a powerful a way of attracting what lies dormant at the heart of our being. It has the power to release the energy for drawing us more closely than originally perceived. It s like singing about how summer will never end oh really, how naïve! Snap out of it and face reality summer ends like every season, ends. The earth will continue to do as God intends. As stewards of the grandeur that is God s creation, and to whom we obliging attribute all in the natural world and all the beauty it contains. As stewards of the natural world, it is incumbent upon us to find a way to greet the new day with unwavering faith. It s an amazing time to find one s self, the transition from summer to autumn, between the R and R of summer and the resumption of our work together. Almond Grove Street Work - update On Friday, July 14, 2017, San Jose Water began work on replacing the water line on Bean (between N. Santa Cruz Ave and Wilder) During this time one-way traffic will be allowed with delays. We recommend you access St. Mary s via Lyndon Avenue or Tait Avenue by way of Main Street. Work will occur Monday - Friday from 8 am - 5 pm. San Jose Water expects work to be completed within 4 weeks. We will be providing a link and updates on our website as well as in the bulletin. Thank you for your patience. For more information: or If you have any concerns about where to park, access, etc. or questions about this project with regards to St. Mary's, please feel free to contact Teri Shepherd Tucci - tstucci@stmaryslg.org or x137 Don t be a Victim of Car Break ins There have been recent incidents of car break ins around Los Gatos. Follow these precautions: * Lock your vehicle * Never leave valuables in plain sight.

4 To register, please go to our website under Faith Formation or Terri Trotter - ttrotter@stmaryslg.org Family Faith Formation Registration material for our Faith Formation year was ed out last week. You can also go to our website to register: stmaryslg.org/faith-formation-registration-form for all sessions: Pre-school through High School. Remember that Faith Formation is an on-going and life-long process and children should attend sessions every year to deepen their understanding, knowledge and relationship with Christ. What is Faith Formation? It is an on-going process of discovery, learning, sharing, and deepening our faith and our understanding of our faith so that we can become life long believers. It involves the following process: Human experience: Individual s journey of faith Present experiences/past experiences Future expectations Message: How Hebrew and Christian scriptures and Catholic traditions Shed light on one s own lived experience Goal is to inform and transform Reflection-Discovery-Integration: Helps person to internalize the message Discover insights and challenges Invites ongoing conversion Response: Honest response to the message Leads the person to service and worship Both a personal and a communal response is required Assumption - Holy Day of Obligation Tuesday August 15 Mass 7:00 to 8:00 PM Grow in your knowledge of Christ and your faith in God New Parishioners Jimmy Dickson David Mesa Renee Patton Azucena Salas Johanna Sullivan Scripture Study Classes September 7 through November 30 Come join us as we explore this 7-week study of James, First Peter, Jude, Second Peter: the Catholic Letters. These New Testament letters were thought to have had a more universal audience than the Pauline letters, thus the designation "catholic." Come, join with us as we reflect on God speaking to us through the insights of the apostles. This session meets every other Thursday morning; from 9:30 to 11 in the St. Mary's Conference Room, September 7 through November 30. Facilitated by Tony Zadel and Donna Lenahan.

5 PRAY FOR THE DECEASED Jim Lyon Diana Meyer Walmir Oliveira Rita Oram PRAY FOR THE SICK Sister Betty Shields Tom Galetto We pray for all parishioners who need healing of body, mind and spirit, that Jesus be a source of strength and comfort. To place a name on this list (for three weeks), contact Pastoral Care, x121. You also are invited to write names in St. Mary s Book of Petitions and Prayers in front of Mary s statue in church. Pack-A-Back 2017 For the last month, we have been collecting your donations of new school supplies for children who are served by Sacred Heart Community Service. THANK YOU! Last Tuesday, a group of parishioners delivered your generous monetary donations and supplies to Sacred Heart. Your donation and efforts will bring smiles to the faces of 3,300 students from kindergarten through High School. Please call Bernadette Yang at (408) or cubs@hotmail.com for more information. Mon. 7 7:30 am Barbara Demblewski Tue. 8 7:30 am Souls in Purgatory Wed. 9 7:30 am John and Rose Pearne Thu. 10 7:30 am Jane & Morgan Lucid (Sp. Int.) Fri. 11 7:30 am Ethel & Nicholas Baxter Sat. 12 Sun. 13 7:30 am 5:00 pm 7:30 am 9:00 am 11:15am 5:00 pm Barbara Baxter Antonio & Celeste Pereira Nancy Ottoboni Frank & Marilyn Dorsa (Sp. Int.) St. Mary Parishioners Richard Soch St. Vincent de Paul Society - St. Mary Conference st-vincent-de-paul Help Us Help Others in our Community Monday: Nm 11:4b-15; Ps 81:12-17; Mt 14:13-21 Tuesday: Nm 12:1-13; Ps 51:3-7, 12-13; Mt 14:22-36 or Mt 15:1-2, Wednesday:Nm 13:1-2, :1, 26-29a, 34-35; Ps 106:6-7ab, 13-14, 21-23; Mt 15:21-28 Thursday: 2 Cor 9:6-10; Ps 112:1-2, 5-9; Jn 12:24-26 Friday: Dt 4:32-40; Ps 77:12-16, 21; Mt 16:24-28 Saturday: Dt 6:4-13; Ps 18:2-4, 47, 51; Mt 17:14-20 Office Volunteers Needed We are looking for parish office volunteers for mornings from around 8 am to noon to answer phones and greet people. Please contact Teri Tucci at x 137 or her at tstucci@stmaryslg.org The Prayer Shawl Ministry Group will meet Monday August 14th 10:15 am to 11:45 am in the Parish Conference Room. We welcome new members! If you have any questions regarding receiving a prayer shawl, donating a shawl or the availability of patterns and supplies,please contact Jane Najour ( ext. 121)or jnajour@stmaryslg.org. Sacrament of the Sick and St. Mary s Visiting Ministry Ministers are availabe and can bring communion, or anointing can be arranged for parishioners who are ill, home-bound or in the hospital. For more information please contact the Pastoral Ministries Office. Jane Najour - (408) or jnajour@stmaryslg.org Sunday: 1 Kgs 19:9a, 11-13a; Ps 85:9-14; Rom 9:1-5; Mt 14:22-33

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8 Pastoral Administration Parish & Pastoral Ministries Offices: Fax: Registration Open for ! We are accepting applications for all grades, Transitional Kindergarten - 8th Grade. Our Extended Care Program provides after-school supervised care until 6:00pm. Applications and enrollment information is available on the St. Mary School website, org. For more information, call the school office, St. Mary School does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and/or ethnic origin, age, sex or disability in the admission of students, the administration of educational policies, scholarships, loan programs, athletic and other schooladministered programs. Fr. Rick Rodoni Pastor rrodoni@stmaryslg.org x139 Fr. Biju Daniel Varghese Parochial Vicar bvarghese@stmaryslg.org x138 Terri Trotter Pastoral Assoc., Director of ttrotter@stmaryslg.org x123 Faith Formation -Infant through Adult Jane Najour Coordinator of Pastoral Ministries jnajour@stmaryslg.org x121 Ellie Harris Youth Ministry mharris@stmaryslg.org x129 Corliss Greene Director of Music cgreene@stmaryslg.org x122 Lisa Lawson Parish Secretary llawson@stmaryslg.org x110 Teri Shepherd Tucci Business Manager tstucci@stmaryslg.org x137 If it is an emergency and you need to reach a priest call School Administration School Office: Fax: Jim Johnston Principal jjohnston@stmaryslg.org x119 Lynne Dickerson Vice Principal ldickerson@stmaryslg.org x161 Cecile Mantecon Vice Principal cmantecon@stmaryslg.org x148 Sheryl Becker Office Manager sbecker@stmaryslg.org x132 Kathy Rosendin Administrative Assistant krosendin@stmaryslg.org x118 Mass Times Daily: Mon - Sat 7:30 am Saturday (Vigil): 5 pm Sunday: 7:30, 9 & 11:15 am and 5 pm Reconciliation: 3:30 pm on Saturdays Rosary prayed after 7:30am daily mass The presiders schedule can be found on our website at: We have a winner for the Country Fair t-shirt contest! Many of our school children recently submitted their artwork for consideration in the Country Fair T-Shirt contest. It was a hard decision, but we have a winner! Congratulations to Alex Salcedo, 7th grade, for being selected the winner of the contest! October 6th, 7th and 8th ST MARY S COUNTRY FAIR IS COMING! Mark your calendars and join us for the Country Fair on October 6th, 7th and 8th. The Fair is fun for all, and is a major fundraiser for both the parish and the church. For more information or to volunteer go to: Country Fair Raffle We are looking for donations for the General Raffle and we hope you can help! Some great ideas for prizes are popular electronics (game consoles, tablets, iwatch, etc), sporting event tickets, an evening out or concert/event tickets. You get the idea! If you want, ask a friend to join you for a combined donation. The goal is to have all items identified by mid August. If you have any questions, contact Kristine Maus at mauskris@gmail. com or fair_chairs@stmaryslg.org. Thank you for your generosity!