LITTLE CHURCH 21800 Bertram Rd. New Almaden, CA 95042 A Community of Christ Our Lord and Brother BIG CHURCH 20101 McKean Rd. San Jose, CA 95120 Saint Anthony Catholic Church PARISH OFFICE HOURS Monday 9 am to Noon Tues. - Thurs. 9 am to 12 pm & 1 pm to 4 pm Friday Closed Or call to make an appointment Phone [408] 997-4800 Fax [408] 997-4801 Email Website churchstanthony@aol.com www.churchstanthony.com Mailing Address 20101 McKean Road, San Jose, CA 95120 CATECHETICAL MINISTRY Phone [408] 997-4808 Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom STAFF Pastor Pastoral Associate/ Catechetical Ministry Parish Secretary Parish Bookkeeper Rev. Lawrence M Hendel (408) 997-4814 Joann Maier Tracey Nicol Susan Dunn PASTORAL COUNCIL Ramiro Bejinez, Holly Case, Michelle Contini, Cely-An Escay, Jim Georgiou, Barbara Hawthorne, Katrina Healy, George Houston, Joann Maier, Son Nguyen, Patti Rottjakob, & Barbara Wadors FINANCE COMMITTEE Tom Cronan, Kevin Healy, Ron LaValley, Maria McMurray, Jim Parks and Matt Tanzi Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults Anthony Gonzales, Director, Office for the Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults Diocese of San Jose, 1150 North First Street, Suite 100, San Jose, CA 95112 Ph: (408) 983-0113, Fax: (408) 983-0147 e-mail: agonzales@dsj.org or www.dsj.org as part of the Universal Church encourages all people to live the Gospel Message, creating a loving parish environment that promotes spiritual growth, renewing and strengthening our commitment of faith and extending our hearts and hands to reach out to those in spiritual or temporal need. SACRAMENT CELEBRATIONS MASS SCHEDULE Sunday Observances: Saturday - 4:00 PM Little Church Sunday - 8:30 AM, 10:30 AM & 5:30 PM Big Church Tues. - Friday, Mass - 8:15 AM Big Church RECONCILIATION Anytime by Appointment Communal Celebrations during Advent & Lent CHRISTIAN INITIATION OF ADULTS Annually at the Easter Vigil. Adults or children aged seven or older interested in discerning the Catholic faith or completing the Sacraments of Initiation, please call the Catechetical Ministry Office or e-mail: createdre@aol.com BAPTISM OF INFANTS Ordinarily Third Sunday of the Month. New or expectant parents should contact the Parish Office to schedule an appointment with the Pastor. Infant Baptism is celebrated following Baptism Preparation Catechesis. CONFIRMATION FOR TEENS Celebrated every other year in the Easter Season. Candidates for this Sacrament should call the Catechetical Office at 997-4808 ANOINTING & CARE OF THE SICK Anytime as needed. Communal Celebration Annually on/near the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, Feb. 11. Call a priest to celebrate the Sacrament of Anointing for persons seriously ill, preparing for surgery or frail under the burden of years. Holy Communion is brought to all members of our parish who are ill or homebound through our Pastoral Care Ministers. MARRIAGE Couples should contact the parish upon their Engagement and usually 6 months prior to the desired date of the Wedding Ceremony.
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Easter Sunday March 27, 2016 To him all the prophets bear witness, that everyone who believes in him will receive forgiveness of sins through his name. Acts 10:43 MARCH 26th & 27th, 2016 Saturday 8:15 PM Bob O Neill (RIP) Sunday 8:30 AM Parishioners Sunday 10:30 AM Suzanne Jacquez (RIP) Sunday 5:30 PM NO MASS SCHEDULED APRIL 3rd & 4th, 2016 Saturday 4:00 PM Theresa Courtney (RIP) Sunday 8:30 AM Jose Luis Garcia (RIP) Sunday 10:30 AM Dan Farnsworth (RIP) Sunday 5:30 PM Parishioners NEXT SUNDAY S READINGS First Reading: Acts 5:12-16 Second Reading: Revelation 1:9-11a, 12-13, 17-19 Gospel: John 20:19-31 Sunday Stewardship Trackable Donations for: 3/6/16: 85 Stewardship (includes online giving) - 3/13/16. $4,070.00 YTD Stewardship.. $234,447.00 YTD Goal... $226,255.00 YTD Excess $8,192.00 *Do to the Easter Holiday, the stewardship numbers for March 20th & Easter Sunday, will be included in the April 4th bulletin. Without our generous advertisers, Saint Anthony Parish would not have a weekly bulletin. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Meetings This Week: Sunday, Mar. 27 th : 11:20 a.m., Easter Egg Hunt Monday, Mar. 28 th : Tuesday, Mar. 29 th : Wednesday, Mar. 30 th : Thursday, Mar. 31 st : Friday, April 1 st : Saturday, April 2 nd : Do to the Easter Holiday, the Parish Office will be closed on Monday, March 28th. It will re-open again on Tuesday, March 29th at 9:00 a.m. PARISH OFFICE CLOSED (Sanctuary @ McKean) 4:00 p.m., C.R.E.A.T.E. Classes 5:15 p.m., Children s Choir Practice 6:30 p.m., Pastoral Council (Our Lady of Guadalupe Room) 7:00 p.m., 8:30 Choir Practice 6:30 p.m., 5:30 Choir Practice 4:00 p.m., Wedding (Bertram Church) 9 a.m., First Communion Activity Day Upcoming Events: Sunday, April 3 rd Ministry Sign Up Sunday Friday, April 8 th S.A.S. Meeting @ 7 p.m. Saturday, April 16 th Catholic Charities Run Friday, April 22 nd Casino Night ESSENTIAL REDUCTION All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass: Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Archibald Alexander BEGINNING AND END Faith is the beginning and the end is love. St. Ambrose
CATECHETICAL MINISTRY AND UPCOMING PARISH EVENTS HUNGERING FOR CELEBRATION We prayed, fasted and gave alms and now we celebrate! Our Lenten journey with CRS Rice Bowl ends in our own hearts, where Jesus reigns forever. Let us rejoice in our risen Lord and in the lives we ve changed this Lent in Colombia, Laos, Rwanda, Honduras, Madagascar and all over the world! Don t forget to turn in your CRS Rice Bowl in the basket in the vestibule at our McKean Church or on the table at the back of church at our Bertram Church. Easter Egg Hunt X-StATiC There is no 5:30 p.m. Mass this evening and no X-StATiC Happy Easter! Join us next Sunday, April 3 rd for another exci ng evening of X-StATiC!! Our 7 th and 8 th grade students in B.L.A.S.T. will once again help supervise the Saint Anthony Annual Easter Egg Hunt after the 10:30 a.m. Mass TODAY, for all children ages 2 thru 4 th Grade. Happy Easter! Saint Anthony Parish invites you to join our Knitting Circle! We gather the second and fourth Mondays of the month. This month we will be meeting in the morning! Join us on Monday, March 28 th at 11:00 a.m., in Our Lady of Guadalupe Room. All knitters welcomed!! We are presently making prayer cloths and prayer shawls for those in our parish who are ill. Don t know how to knit? We will teach you how! Questions...call Joanne McMillen at: (831) 594-2433. DRAWN INTO THE STORY We are witnesses! The scripture readings for Easter Sunday concentrate on details reported by eyewitnesses. Listen carefully and you will be drawn into the stories yourself. Peter reports the good works Jesus did, his death on the cross, and his resurrection. The passage from John s Gospel has us running to the empty tomb with Peter and John and peering inside to see the cloths used to cover Jesus body. Psalm 118 sums up our response: It is wonderful in our eyes! What resurrection details do we see in our lives today? How have we died to our old lives and been raised up again with Jesus? Let us pay attention to the new life around us. It is wonderful in our eyes. Copyright J. S. Paluch Co. 7 th & 8 th Grade Students.. Our next gathering will be on Easter Sunday, March 27 th after the 10:30 a.m. Mass for the Easter Egg Hunt. The next class time will be on Tuesday, April 5 th at 7:00 p.m. Easter Flower Donations In Memory/Honor of: Alicia Baez, Anne Baumgarten Hank Baumgarten, Dennis, Harriet & Jim Broderick Mr. & Mrs. R. Broznick, Evalyn & Michael DePalma Vincent DePalma, Michael DiVincent Mike Dunn, Carmel Elliot Mr. & Mrs. S. Georgiou, Josie Gurgiolo Merilyn Hanson, Robert Low Bridget & O.W. (Lute) Luther, Martha Macias Anthony Marino, Lena Marino, Sam Marino Members of the Alois Knapp Family Carmel Palluck, Matt Palluck Benito Pena, Esther Pena Rafaela Perez, Jerry Pfeiffer The Eichler Family, The Pappas Family, Pat & Theresa Tozzi, Louis Young, Madeline Young, Eugenia Zillman
DIOCESAN NEWS, CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING & MORE PARISH EVENTS Catholic Professionals Speaker Event Thursday, April 14, 2016 7:00 a.m. Mass - Msgr. J. Sandersfeld 7:35 a.m. - Speaker Program Location: Three Flames Restaurant Banquet Room 1547 Meridian Avenue (just north of Hamilton Ave.) SPEAKER: Sister Eloise Rosenblatt, RSM TOPIC: The Retrospective and the Prospective of Women Religious in the Church - What s a Good Nun Doing by Becoming of All Things - A Lawyer and Litigator! RSVP at: www.sjcatholicprofessionals.com or call 408-491-9229 or cpbcinfo@gmail.com READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Acts 2:14, 22-33; Ps 16:1-2, 5, 7-11; Mt 28:8-15 Tuesday: Acts 2:36-41; Ps 33:4-5, 18-20, 22; Jn 20:11-18 Wednesday: Acts 3:1-10; Ps 105:1-4, 6-9; Lk 24:13-35 Thursday: Acts 3:11-26; Ps 8:2, 5-9; Lk 24:35-48 Friday: Acts 4:1-12; Ps 118:1-2, 4, 22-27; Jn 21:1-14 Saturday: Acts 4:13-21; Ps 118:1, 14-21; Mk 16:9-15 Sunday: Acts 5:12-16; Ps 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24; Rv 1:9-11a, 12-13, 17-19; Jn 20:19-31 Easter Sunday Easter Sunday is a time of celebration! Jesus Christ has risen from the dead! After dying on the cross on Good Friday, Jesus was raised on the third day. He lives! Following Easter Sunday, the season of Easter begins and lasts for seven weeks, ending with Pentecost. Cathedral Docent Are you interested in showing visitors our treasured Cathedral Basilica of Saint Joseph? Volunteer to become a Cathedral docent. You are invited to learn all about this historic landmark during a special orientation for prospective docents on Tuesday, March 29, 2016. The orientation begins at 1:00 p.m. and will last approximately one and a half hours. This takes place in Loyola Hall, 80 South Market Street in San Jose, next door to the Cathedral. RSVP to Nina Tranchina at: 408-283-8100 ext. 2210 by Wednesday, March 23rd or via email at: atranchina@dsj.org ALPHA IS COMING TO HOLY FAMILY Alpha is a meal, talk and discussion - to help you or a friend explore our Christian faith in a relaxed and fun setting. The next course will begin, with an introductory dinner, on Wednesday, March 30th at 6:30 p.m. at Holy Family Parish, 4848 Pearl Ave., San Jose 95136. This will be followed by 10 weeks of dinner, and discussion in small groups on topics such as: Who is Jesus, How Can I be Sure of My Faith, Why and How Should I Read the Bible. Please RSVP, for catering purposes, to Alicia Morales at 408-857-0523 or am49ers@sbcglobal.net Casino Night in a Tropical Paradise Close your eyes, listen to the gentle surf, smell the refreshing salt air...no you re not on a tropical island, you re at the Saint Anthony Casino Night in a Tropical Paradise. Dust off your flowered shirts and sandals and come to the McKean Church on April 22 nd for a terrific time. There will be gaming (Black Jack, Craps, Roulette and more) as well as island music, great hot and cold hors d oeuvres, valuable prizes and much, much more. You deserve a nice relaxing night out...why not spend it with us? Tickets are only $25 and they go on sale after all Masses, starting the weekend of April 2-3. If you would like to add the name of your loved ones to the Prayer List, please contact the Parish Office. We will publish them here in the Bulletin for a month from the date of the request, and pass their names onto the Parish Prayer group. Thank you and God Bless! Lou Basile, Steven Fosnaugh, Mary Ann Fox, Margie McMahon, Josephine Montanaro, Veronica Navarro, Richard Pfeiffer, Tarcy Philippidis, Dennis Ryan, Mary Sheehan, Grant Show, Carole Show-Grundy, Jolene Soares, Raymond Smith, Renee Stokes The people and families of those on the Prayer Request List would like to give a big Thank You to those who continuously lift them up in prayer. They greatly appreciate all of your thoughts. The power of prayer does great things!
FROM THE PASTOR S DESK: From pre-lent on Ash Wednesday, February 10 th we set out to embrace the three disciplines of Lent: almsgiving, fasting and prayer. Families saved money from simpler meals to contribute to Operation Rice Bowl an extension of Catholic Relief Services to aid the poor and needy of our world. We fasted from gossiping, too much television and possibly time spent on computer games, and feasted on conversation around the dinner table, spent time helping others and gathering for the Eucharist on Sunday. We prayed the Stations of the Cross, prayer around the cross in the Taizé mode and generally tried to spend time listening to God in our daily lives; listening to the voice of the one who imparts guidance, wisdom and direction for our lives. We have done all these things, celebrated the great Three Days, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, the Easter Vigil and now we gather together to celebrate the great Feast of Easter. Here is the heart of our faith that Jesus, the Son of God came to this earth to announce the Good News of the Gospel, save us from our sins, and demonstrate the power and wonder of God s love for us. Laying down his life so that like the bronze saraph serpent Moses raised up to heal the people bitten by the real saraph serpents, Christ is risen from the dead to save us. For the next fifty days we will reflect on the Easter mysteries, Jesus s Passion, Death, Resurrection, Ascension and glorification, culminating in the sending of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost. We do not re-enact these truths of our faith, but we need time each year to digest, take apart, and reflect on their meaning in our lives. The church celebrates Easter for fifty (50) days, not fifty days after Easter. We will hear texts from the Acts of the Apostles and John s Gospel, people who were certainly part of a post-resurrection faith community, trying to absorb what all this means. Where does the celebration of Easter lead us? It leads us to grow more deeply in our relationship with the risen Christ. How do these mysteries touch our lives in 2016? How can I carry on the story of the resurrection to others? Like the disciples, then, we too have been called to intimacy with Christ. We too have been empowered by the Spirit to be instruments of forgiveness and reconciliation to our broken fractured world in this jubilee year of Mercy. Death, calamities and evil do not have the last word. Do we have the courage and conviction to believe such Good News and live our lives accordingly? Let us receive this Good News and celebrate our faith in Christ. SAINT ANTHONY PARISH CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING COMMITTEE Quotes for Reflection The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist. Pope St. Gregory the Great Catholic Relief Services Collection Thank you for your generous support of The Catholic Relief Services Collection. Through your generosity, families will be reunited, valuable life skills will be taught to those seeking a better life, and many will have vital humanitarian needs met. Please visit: www.usccb.org/catholic-relief to learn how your donation makes a difference and help Jesus in disguise. Happy Easter, Father Larry CONFIRMATION FOR ADULTS Any baptized Catholic adult who has received the Sacraments of Eucharist and Reconciliation, but not the sacrament of Confirmation is invited to consider celebrating the sacrament of Confirmation at Pentecost. Father Larry will begin a five session special preparation class for adults on Wednesday evenings at 7:00 PM in the Guadalupe classroom beginning, April 6 th. Those who complete the process will be sent to Saint Joseph Cathedral on May 15 th to join other adults who wish to complete their initiation by receiving the sacrament of Confirmation. Please call the parish office if you are interested (408) 997-4800. WE REMEMBER YOU, O RISEN LORD We remember you, O risen Lord, New Covenant at the feast of the cross. Your resurrection dresses the table for the bread of heaven and the cup of salvation. Blessed are you! From Come, Lord Jesus by Lucien Deiss, CSSP, copyright 1976, 1981, Lucien Deiss. Published by World Library Publications. p.163 ADA Payments For those parishioners who chose to make 10 monthly payments to the ADA and did not pay by credit card or bank withdrawal, please send your monthly check directly to: Annual Diocesan Appeal Diocese of San Jose 1150 North First Street, Suite 100 San Jose, CA 95112 Your check should be made payable to: Annual Diocesan Appeal. Please ensure your name and address is included along with the name of your Parish~ Saint Anthony. If you would like to change your pledge to an electronic payment, please visit www.dsj.org/ada and click on the donate now button. All pledges need to be fulfilled no later than December 31 st, 2016. Thank you!