Saint Martin of Tours Ministering to People Roman Catholic Church and School Community Mass Schedule Sunday Vigil: Saturday 5:00 pm Sunday: 7:00 am, 8:30 am, 10:00 am, 11:30 am, 6:00 pm Weekdays: Mon. - Sat.8:00 am Holy Days: 8:10 am, 12:10 pm, 7:00 pm The Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time June 5, 2016 PRev. Sergio Ovando, Pastor Rev. Abraham Antony, Parochial Vicar Rev. Bob Shinney, S.J., Assisting Priest Lori Krouse, Bookkeeper Jennifer Tavares, Office Administrator Samuel Aguilar, Buildings and Grounds Liturgy...408-289-9614 Judy Swazey, Director Pastoral Care.408-289-9617 Therese Lehane, Director Sacrament of the Sick If you or anyone you love is sick and unable to attend Mass, please call 408-289-9617Mass, please call Catechetical Ministry 408-289-9608 Megan Lott, Catechetical Coordinator Fr. Abraham, Catechumenate Coordinator RCIA We warmly welcome all those inquiring about becoming Catholic. For information, call Fr. Abraham. Baptism A sacrament of initiation and belonging. Please register with Fr. Sergio 408-294-8953 Reconciliation Saturdays 3:30 pm or by appointment St. Vincent de Paul 408-439-0342 St. Martin of Tours School...408-287-3630 200 O Connor Drive, San Jose, California 95128 www.stmartin.org WELCOME TO ALL WHO WORSHIP WITH US Whether you are a parishioner of long standing or new to the parish, if you are not registered, we invite you to do so. If there are changes to your status, please let us know. Please fill in the details below and place in the offertory basket or mail to the Parish office. Name Phone Email Stewardship numbers not available at time of Address City Zip: New Parishioner Moving (please remove from directory) New Address New Phone Number Please check to receive offering envelopes Please check to discontinue receiving envelopes
The Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time June 5, 2016 The Mercy of God Pastor s Note The compassion of Jesus toward the widow who had lost her only son is an example for all of us. Let us take a closer look at the event and compare it with other miracles that Jesus accomplished. - He is going in a different direction: As he drew near to the gate of the city, a man who had died was being carried out. For the interpretation of the Gospel this fact is very important for us. You may hear the expression He/she went beyond his/her duty. This means that someone helps another more than the person is required. In this case, it is the same: Jesus is not involved in the life of this woman or her town; He is not part of the funeral procession. He is just approaching the city. At the same moment, the funeral procession is going out of the city. Jesus stops and helps. Here is something that we should consider: sometimes our excuse not to help others is that they are not along our way. They are not part of our daily lives; they are not a part of my life. Yet the gospel teaches us that we should stop and help, even when we have to go out of our way to do so. - There is no request: In many other situations, those afflicted with illness or their relatives or friends asked Jesus to intervene This time there is no request, only Jesus understanding that this woman is in pain at the loss of her only son. But even though there is no request, out of mercy Jesus helps: When the Lord saw her, he was moved with pity for her. What a wonderful example of mercy and how we should act! At times, we wait to be asked to help. We wait because, like Jesus, we have to see a need, we had to see what needed to be done. But we do not act because we think that some other person will do it, or because no one told us about the need. Does this seem familiar? June 4 June 11 Saturday 5:00 Ben Patellaro Sunday Monday 8:00 7:00 Rose Zucka 8:30 Catherine LaPres 10:00 St. Martin of Tours Parishioners 11:30 Connell John Harvey 6:00 George Colla Tuesday 8:00 Diana Howell Wednesday 8:00 Right to Life Justina Agapita & Epifanio San Juan Thursday 8:00 Jesus b. de Jesus Friday 8:00 Virginia Schlichting Saturday 8:00 Henry Mello I have the opportunity to work with people here at Saint Martin, individuals who do everything, beyond their description jobs, never complaining that this or that is not their responsibility. They just see a need and do it. What a pleasure it is to work with them. Real mercy is to act when we see a need, without excuses or delay. If we learn to act in this way, everything will be better for us and also for those who benefit from our merciful actions. This lesson of mercy was given to us by Jesus many centuries ago, yet we still struggle to learn it. One reason is our lack of love. But if the person in need is my son or daughter, my mother or father, my best friend, or the person I love, there are no excuses, there is no waiting or debating about whether we should act or not. No, we will do everything in our power to assist. When love is real, is not our view of the world different? Let us, as individuals and as a community of believers, work toward that love. Then our actions will be motivated by love, following the example of our Lord. -Fr. Sergio
Sunday Ministry for Children & Youth Please contact the Catechetical Office for program information. The EDGE is our middle school (6-8th) grade youth ministry and meets 5-6:30pm in the community building on Tuesdays. Life Teen is our high school youth ministry. We will be meeting Sundays in the Bailey House from 7:00-9:00 pm. Since we will now be meeting directly after the 6pm Mass, dinner will be provided. Email us at mlott@stmartin.org for more details. TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION Unless Professor Einstein s theory of relativity can be translated into any useful kind of timetravel, most of our clues about life in the early church will have to come from ancient letters and ancient prayer texts. A prayer text from a dusty library may yield, for example, an understanding of what presbyters actually did. We have such a prayer from the early third century from the hand of Hippolytus of Rome. While our modern prayers derive a great deal from his, some of the practices of the ancient church have fallen away. In his day, bishops were chosen by the people, and the other bishops merely consented. Presbyters, by contrast, seem to have been chosen by the bishops. This makes sense, since it allowed the bishops to hand-pick their most trusted advisers. It seems that bishops were at first reluctant to share their presiding at the Eucharist with presbyters. In fact, by the time of the fourth-century church s growth spurt in Rome, the bishop sent deacons out with fragments of the host from his Eucharist to drop into the chalices of the presbyters at the outlying eucharistic celebrations. We still have a vestige of this fermentum in the Mass today, a reminder of the early bishops desire to give a powerful sign of the unity of all celebrations of the Eucharist with their ministry, and a clue to their reluctance to delegate a sacramental ministry to the presbyters. Rev. James Field, Copyright J. S. Paluch Co. Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time June 5, 2016 You changed my mourning into dancing; O LORD, my God, forever will I give you thanks. Psalm 30:12, 13
Sunday Offerings and Online Giving Sunday offerings: 5/29/2016 Week Budget Actual Stewardship numbers not available at time of print Fiscal Year to Date Please mark checks for Capital Campaign In the memo section of your check. Thank you for your continued If you are interested in or you know of someone that would be a good fit to be a member of the Parish Council please recommend them contact Fr. Sergio. Calendar of Events 6/2 Adoration 7PM Church 6/13 6/17 Food Box Sorting - 6:45PM Back Patio Bailey House Food Box Packing- 6:30PM Back Patio Bailey House 6/19 Father s Day Due to construction on the Gym, VBC for this year has been CAN- CELLED. If you have any questions, please email mlott@stmartin.org. If you have or know of someone that has an accounting background and would like to be part of the Parish Financial Council please recommend them contact Fr. Sergio. Scripture Readings for NEXT Week Sunday, June 12, 2016 Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time First Reading: Samuel 12:7-10,13 Second Reading: Galatians 2:16,19-21 Gospel Reading: Luke 7:36-8:3 How have you experienced forgiveness leading to greater love? From the Peace and Justice Commission Continuing the lessons learned from staff and guests of the UnHoused Women Project Lesson #2. Recruit, and signing up volunteers What went well? Several options for sign up. On line, school website, after Mass, paper notations, phone What did we learn? Too many options made more work and resulted in errors. Needed: 1. Reliable protected wifi to allow sign up at church and home. 2 User friendly software program
St. Vincent De Paul Society Donate your car to help those in need. Cars with dents can help pay rents 1-800-322-8284. Please tell the operator you are from St. Martin of Tours. Did you or another Parishioner just have surgery? A new baby? Lost a loved one? We are here to help! Please contact Lara Stanton at lara.stanton@gmail.com or Nancy Pierce at npierce33@yahoo.com. Not so good at email? Call the Parish office, 408-294-8953. A team of volunteers will be on hand to deliver home-cooked hot meals to your doorstep until you get back on your feet. Saint Vincent de Paul: Phone Monitors needed! Would you like to work with SVdP helping the poor? We are in need of additional phone monitors. Training will be provided. Phone monitor volunteers commit to answering phone calls on a rotating basis for a one week period. The hours are flexible as you do it from your home. As a phone monitor, you would take messages off of a SVdP line, screen the clients for eligibility and return their call to get necessary information. If you are interested, please contact Harry or Mary Kay Tocce, St. Vincent de Paul president and secretary 408-271-9705. Engaged couples can register for any date at www.marriageforlifesf.com August 6th, October 15th Reconnect with your Parish Family We love seeing your faces at mass each week and we are very interested in knowing how we can make our masses more enjoyable, fulfilling and spiritually rewarding. Reconnect St. Martin is a small group of St. Martin parishioners, and a committee under the Parish Council, with one goal in mind - discover new opportunities to reconnect with those parishioners who don't come to mass regularly. Please share your ideas with us via email at Reconnect-STM@googlegroups.com or talk to any of us directly. Let's work together to strengthen our parish community and improve the church experience for all of us. Thank you, Fr. Abe, Francisco Irao,Laura & Katie M'Guinness, Mark & Liz Page St. Martin of Tours Young Adult Let's getin-tents! Fri. July 22nd - Sun. July 24th Mt. Madonna Park, Watsonville Cost: $30 ($25 student) or $10 Sat Day Trip Only Includes meals and t-shirt Space is limited to 50 campers! For more information & to register, visit our website: www.smyoungadults.com