St. Veronica Church Established 1951 A Stewardship Parish - Grateful Living through Faith, Fellowship, Service, & Giving 434 Alida Way South San Francisco, CA 94080 Phone: 650-588-1455 www.stveronicassf.com Fax: 650-588-1481 The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph December 30, 2018 Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father s house? - Luke 2:49
St. Veronica Parish Parish Office Hours Monday to Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Closed for lunch from 12:30-1:30 p.m. (unless otherwise posted) Phone: 650-588-1455 Fax: 650-588-1481 Parish Staff Fr. Charles Puthota, Ph.D., Pastor Fr. Don Sharp, S.J., Weekend Assistant Deacon Roger Beaudry Mary Martin, Administrative Assistant, Ext.301 Silvia Reyes, Bookkeeper, Ext.304 Karen Guglielmoni, Faith Formation & Wedding Coordinator, Ext.305 Christopher Lindstrom, Music Director, Ext. 308 Jim Rodriguez, Custodian/Maintenance St. Veronica Catholic School www.saintveronicassf.org Phone: 650-589-3909 Mrs. Mary Boland Mrs. Pam Cavagnaro Principal Vice Principal SACRAMENTAL PREPARATION Sacrament of Baptism Baptisms are to be arranged through the Parish Office. Baptisms in English are typically held on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month. Baptismal Preparation classes are held once a month. Call the Parish Office at 650-588-1455 Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA) Call the Parish Office to register 650-588-1455 Ext.309 Faith Formation: 650-588-1455 Ext. 305 Catechetical instructions (1st to 8th grades) Confirmation Classes: 650-588-1455 Mass Intentions for the Week of December 30, 2018 Sun 12/30 7:00 May Dunleavy 8:30 Esperanza & Amparo Del Pan 10:00 Caroline Noonan 11:30 Carpio Deceased Family 6:00 Delmi Ordoñes Mon 12/31 Tue 01/01 Wed 01/02 Thu 01/03 8:30 Barbara Modica Joe JR Pinkney 6:30 A. Victor Jangar 8:30 Liwayway Gutierrez Virginia Ramos 6:30 Anatalia Bueno 8:30 Felicisima Ballelos Wendy Broas 8:30 Annie D Lima Bianca & Alexa Manalansan Fri 01/04 6:30 Leo Sands 8:30 Gianfranco Andreazzi Sat 01/05 8:30 Aurie Piguing 5:00 People of Saint Veronica Sun 01/06 7:00 Aldo & Gertrude Bignardi 8:30 Rafael & Juliette Montalvo 10:00 May Dunleavy 11:30 Mary Vilhauer 6:00 Maria Jesus Cater St. Veronica Parish Mission Statement St. Veronica Church is a multicultural community of believers who treasure Jesus Christ at the center of their profession of faith & practice. They worship & work together to build up a community of family & friends according to the mind & heart of Christ. Out of the abundance of joy & gratitude, they live & share the good news of faith & hope, striving to stand up for peace & justice, to spread love & compassion, to care for those who are in need, and to make our nation & the world a better place for all. Parish Office email: churchoffice@stveronicassf.com
Mass Schedule Saturdays: 8:30 a.m. & 5:00 p.m. Sundays: 7:00, 8:30, 10:00, and 11:30 a.m. Spanish Mass: Sundays at 6:00 p.m. Holy Days: 6:30, 8:30 a.m., 6:30 p.m. (English) Monday - Friday: 8:30 a.m. First Fridays: 6:30 a.m. & 8:30 a.m. Confessions Saturdays: 4:00-5:00 p.m. Liturgy of the Hours Monday - Friday: Morning Prayer at 6:00 a.m. Eucharistic Adoration 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Monday - Friday except as posted for holidays and parish events Parish Registration Please complete and return form to the parish office, or simply drop it in the collection basket. Kindly print all information. Name(s): Name(s): Address: City & Zip: Phone: E-mail: Primary language spoken at home: Updating Current Parish Registration Moving / Please remove from mailing list. This is a new registration Please call me. On the Horizon Mon., Dec. 31, New Year s Eve: Mass at 8:30 a.m.; Parish office closed; No Adoration Tues., Jan. 1, New Year s Day, a Holy Day of Obligation: Masses at 6:30 & 8:30 a.m., and 6:30 p.m.; Parish office closed; No Adoration Sun., Jan. 13: Winter Sports Mass, 10:00 a.m. Mon, Jan. 21: Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday; Parish office closed; No Adoration Sun., Jan. 27: Catholic Schools Week opening Mass, 10:00 a.m. Sat., Feb. 2: Annual Men s Club Crab Feed (stay tuned for reservation information) Year-end Contribution Statements for 2018 A friendly reminder: Any donations that you wish to be recorded on your contribution statement for 2018 must be postmarked by Dec. 31, 2018 in order to be recorded as a 2018 contribution. Donations postmarked after that date cannot (by law) be recorded as a 2018 contribution. Donations placed in the offertory collection basket or Pastoral Center mailbox during the weekend masses of Dec. 29 & 30, 2018 will be recorded as a 2018 donation. For tax purposes, contribution letters will automatically be mailed to those who donated $250.00 or more to St. Veronica Parish in 2018. These letters will be sent no later than Jan. 31, 2018. Contributions made to the Archdiocesan Annual Appeal are acknowledged through the Office of Development. Thank you for your continued generosity to our parish. Our Lady of Guadalupe Mass Collection: $333.00 Envelopes received in the First Collection: December 1 & 2: 361 December 8 & 9: 286 December 15 & 16: 343 If you currently receive envelopes but do not use them, please prayerfully consider including your donation in the collection basket. Thank you for supporting St. Veronica Parish and its works. Day Mass Time 1st Collection Maintenance Totals Saturday 12/15/18 5:00PM 2026.00 406.00 2432.00 Sunday 12/16/18 7:00AM 979.00 195.00 1174.00 8:30AM 941.00 255.00 1196.00 10:00AM 1490.00 323.00 1813.00 11:30AM 899.00 224.00 1123.00 Spanish Mass 6:00PM 793.00 158.00 951.00 TOTAL IN-PEW DONATIONS: $7,128.00 $1,561.00 $8,689.00 Other Contributions 519.00 n/a 519.00
A Spiritual Reflection for the New Year Dear Parishioners, Story: The clock master was about to fix the pendulum of a clock when, to his surprise, he heard the pendulum speak. Please, sir, leave me alone, the pendulum pleaded. It will be an act of kindness on your part. Think of the number of times I will have to tick day and night. So many times each minute, sixty minutes an hour, twenty-four hours a day, three hundred and sixty-five days a year. For year upon year. Millions of ticks. I could never do it. But the clock master answered wisely, Don t think of the future. Just do one tick at a time and you will enjoy every tick for the rest of your life. And that is exactly what the pendulum decided to do. It is still ticking merrily away. (The Prayer of the Frog, Vol. II) Reflection: Poised on the threshold of another year, we are about to bring down the curtain on 2018 and ring in the New Year 2019. We would like to say thanks to all that has been and yes to all that shall be. God in Jesus has been with us in 2018 in small and big things that came our way. When we thought we couldn t take another step, He was by our side, leading the way and gracing our moments and filling us with hope. Through the mists of grief and sorrow, disease and death, His presence shone through. When we felt happy and successful, too, His presence filled us, showing that all blessings come down from His loving hands. We begin the New Year with hope and optimism. We may have a tendency to carry the sad and bad things that happened in 2018 over to 2019. We may have been hurt or disappointed or shocked by what may have happened to us. Sometimes, our choices may have led to consequences we regretted or loathed. At other times, our lives may have veered off into a weary, loveless, and joyless humdrum of life. We have to be mindful about not carrying baggage from last year into the New Year. Also, there is a possibility that we could be suffering from nostalgia for the good and beautiful things that came our way in 2018. This could lead us to an idol worship of the memorable things of the past, with the result that we are unable to welcome the present with fresh eyes, open arms, and hopeful hearts. Of course, we worry and fret about how this year will turn out to be. What good things are we going to encounter this New Year? What sad things are going to happen to us? However, let us not seek to see the distant scene. Let us not be overwhelmed by what we have to do or how we must cope with the challenges and ordeals of life. All we have to do is to take one moment at a time: pack that moment with as much love and energy as possible. There may be setbacks and heartaches, but even those will become moments laden with grace and faith. Let s meet each person as if he or she were the only one in this world. Let s deal with the task at hand as if it were the only task to be done in the world. Let s live in love in the present moment. The present moment is where God meets us because our God is the God of the present. Remember the saying: Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift---that s why we call it the present. Let us do one tick at a time. We ll tick merrily away the whole year of 2019 and beyond! If God is for us, who can be against us? Let s ponder these insightful sayings: For last year s words belong to last year s language, and next year s words await another voice T.S. Eliot. The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul G.K. Chesterton. Cheers to a new year, and another chance for us to get it right Oprah Winfrey. We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year s Day Edith Lovejoy Pierce. A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other Anonymous. Action: Try these not-so-easy things: Embrace the New Year by trying to shake off sadness or nostalgia for things past. Look at and relate to people without paying attention to their past as if you were meeting them for the first ever time. The past interferes too much in our present and ruins our future. Bring a fresh and unsullied outlook on people and circumstances. Here s a person in front of you, full of possibilities; here is a situation calling for your creative and positive approach. That person s past is gone; the future doesn t exist. This situation or event in this particular form has never happened in your life before. Meet that person in the present moment. Bring all your resources to deal with the present situation. In Ten Languages: Happy New Year! Feliz Año Nuevo! Maligayang Bagong Taon! Buon anno! Is- Sena t-tajba! Athbhliain faoi Mhaise Duit! Bonne Année! Xin Nian Kuai Le! Urte berri on! Noothana samvatsara shubhakankshalu! Your Friend & Pastor, Father Charles Puthota
It is with great joy we welcome into our church and community the following child who received the Sacrament of Baptism at our Church on Saturday, December 15, 2018 Michael Gish Holy Day of Obligation Mass Schedule Tuesday, January 1, is the Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God, and a Holy Day of Obligation. Masses times will be 6:30 a.m. 8:30 a.m. 6:30 p.m. Priesthood Discernment Retreat Set for January Is God calling you? The Archdiocesan Office of Vocations offers its annual weekend discernment retreat for men who would like to know more about the vocation of a Catholic priest. This invitation is extended to single men 21 years or older who wish to explore the meaning of priesthood. Conferences will be given by Bishop Thomas A. Daly of Spokane, Washington. Attendance at the retreat does not imply further obligation. The retreat takes place Friday, January 18 through Sunday, January 20 at St. Patrick Seminary & University in Menlo Park. Lodging and all meals are provided. For complete information and instructions for applying, visit stpsu.edu/is-god-calling-you or contact Fr. Patrick Summerhays, Vocations Director, at 415-614-5683 or summerhays.patrick@sfarch.org. Save the Date! Sat., Feb. 2, 2019 Stay tuned for details!
Reflecting on the Word The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph If you were to choose an adjective to accompany family, what would it be? Holy? Or is it more likely to be dysfunctional? If culture reflects reality, our greatest American playwrights hold up families falling apart as the norm: Eugene O Neil s Tyrone family, Tennessee Williams haunted Southern siblings, Arthur Miller s Willie and Lind Loman and sons, and most recently, the families of Tracy Lett s August: Osage County and Jon Rabin Baitz s Other Desert Cities. Behold, the American family! And yet, granting that every family, like every person, is imperfect and on occasion wounds each other in both small and big ways, we do find holiness in families. It is the holiness that we see in Mary, Joseph, and Jesus, who cared for and respected each other, a holiness that witnesses to the power of God s grace at work in hearts open to it. In today s Gospel we see this gracious care in the worry of parents who could not find their son. We hear it in Mary s anxious words to Jesus, in Jesus fidelity to his dual parents - earthly and heavenly - and in the simple statement that he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them. As members of the human family, imperfect and even sinful, we too are graced with a capacity for advancing in wisdom and age and favor before God and one another. Each of us is called to holiness, to a fullness of being made possible by being open to the loving touch of God s grace made visible in the Incarnation. For Prayerful Consideration & Discussion Do Mary, Joseph, and Jesus have anything to teach us about what it means to be family? What does it mean to be a holy family? Is it a matter of doing holy actions, or saying holy words? Living and Praying with the Word Loving Father, you have created all who have ever lived in your image and likeness. Help us to recognize all others as our brothers and sisters and to honor, respect, forgive, and love them as your children. Together, enable us to bring your peace and justice, healing and reconciliation to our world. - Living the Word Baptism Information Registration forms are available from the Pastoral Center during regular office hours, or you may download a form from our website at www.stveronicassf.com. Baptisms are generally celebrated monthly on the 1st and 3rd Saturday in English. Please call the Parish Office to sign up. Upcoming baptism dates are as follows: January 5 & 19 February 2 & 16 March 2 & 16 Preparation classes for parents and godparents are held on the second Tuesday of the month. Classes are conducted in the Pastoral Center from 7:30-9:00 p.m. (Adults only please). Please call the Parish Office at 650-588-1455 for specific dates and to reserve your space for the Baptismal Preparation Classes. We welcome all those who are visiting St. Veronica Parish for Christmas and New Year! Thank you for celebrating this holiday season with us! Welcome New Parishioners! Our parish continues to be blessed and enriched by the presence of newly registered parishioners: Emmanuel & Lilibeth Castillo Benjamin, Conchita & Francesca Mecano Francisco & Myrna Rodriguez Daniel, Angelique, Vida & Eve Valdez May St. Veronica Church become a spiritual home where your faith and fellowship may be nourished with inspiration for you to live a life of service and generosity toward God and others.
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Coming this January to your mail box... St. Veronica Parish is pleased to announce that we have contracted with Our Sunday Visitor (OSV) as the new provider of our Sunday envelopes. What will stay the same: Your current envelope number! What will be new: An envelope for every second collection - this allows the parish office to track cash donations for tax purposes Bi-monthly envelope packets - envelopes will arrive every two months (rather than the current quarterly schedule) - this allows our office to quickly update new parishioners & address changes If you have not received your new envelopes by the time your current packet runs out on January 6, or if you would like to begin receiving envelopes, please contact the St. Veronica parish office at 650-588-1455.