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 9a.m. to 12 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday - 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Closed 12 p.m. - 1 p.m.) Friday - Closed Or call to make an appointment Phone [408] 997-4800 Fax [408] 997-4801 Email churchstanthony@aol.com Website 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 Rev. Lawrence M Hendel (408) 997-4814 Pastoral Associate for Catechetical Ministry Joann Maier Office Manager Tracey Nicol Parish Bookkeeper Susan Dunn Youth Ministry Coordinator Ana Fuentes 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 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 Weekend Celebrations: 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 Baptism is celebrated on the Third Sunday of the month at Mass. New or expectant parents should contact the parish office to schedule an appointment with the pastor. Infant Baptism is celebrated following a Baptism preparation session. 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 If you or someone you know is preparing for surgery, received a recent serious medical diagnosis, or is experiencing the burden of years, please call the parish office for Anointing of the Sick. Communion can be brought to anyone who is ill or homebound through our Pastoral Care Ministers. A communal anointing occurs at Mass annually on/or near the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, Feb. 11. MARRIAGE Couples should contact the parish upon their Engagement and usually 6 months prior to the desired date of the Wedding Ceremony.
Easter Sunday April 16, 2017 When Christ who is your life is revealed, then you also will be revealed with him in glory. Colossians 3:4 APRIL 15th & 16th, 2017 Saturday 4:00 PM John DeGennaro (RIP) Sunday 8:30 AM Marjorie Preston (RIP) Sunday 10:30 AM Lee Toni Mazzanti & Jay Ladine (RIP) SUNDAY 5:30 PM NO MASS WEEK OF April 17th, 2017 Thursday 8:15 AM Dee Parsions (SI) Friday 8:15 AM Greg Smith (RIP) APRIL 22nd & 23rd, 2017 Saturday 4:00 PM Parishioners Sunday 8:30 AM Carol Bundlie (RIP) Sunday 10:30 AM Roger Golitz (RIP) Sunday 5:30 PM George Zakher (RIP) Meetings This Week: Monday, April 17 th : Tuesday, April 18 th : Parish Office Closed 6:30 p.m., SALT (Teens) (Holy Family Room) 8:15 a.m., Morning Prayer 5:15 p.m. Children s Choir 7:00 p.m., BLAST (7 th & 8 th Grade) 7:00 p.m., 8:30 a.m. Choir Practice (Guardian Angels Room) Wednesday, April 19 th : 8:15 a.m., Morning Prayer 6:30 p.m., 5:30 Choir Practice 7:00 p.m., Scripture Study (Saint Joseph Room) Thursday, April 20 th : Friday, April 21 st : 8:15 a.m., Morning Mass 7:00 p.m., 10:30 Choir Practice Parish Office Closed 8:15 a.m., Morning Mass NEXT SUNDAY S READINGS First Reading: Acts 2:42-47 Second Reading: 1 Peter 1:3-9 Gospel: John 20:19-31 Sunday Stewardship Trackable Donations for: 4/2/17 = 75 Stewardship total for 4/2/17... $6,031.00 Youth Ministry... $385.00 (YTD Stewardship... $252,216.00 *Because of the Easter Holiday, the Stewardship numbers for April 9nd will be included in the April 23rd Bulletin. Upcoming Events: April 23 rd 5:30 p.m. Mass Rite of Sending for Confirmation Candidates April 29 th 9:30 a.m., Confirmation at Cathedral Basilica of Saint Joseph April 30 th 10:30 a.m. Mass First Communion Catholic Home Missions Appeal Next week, we will take up the Catholic Home Mission Appeal. Right now, over 40 percent of dioceses in the US are considered home Missions because they are unable to fund essential pastoral work needed in their communities. Your support of this appeal helps ease the struggle of these diocese. Please prayerfully consider how you can support this appeal. More information can be found at: www.usccb.org/home-missions Without our generous advertisers, Saint Anthony Parish would not have a weekly bulletin. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!!
CATECHETICAL MINISTRY AND UPCOMING PARISH EVENTS Easter Egg Hunt XSTATIC 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 5 th grade. Thank you for helping to stuff the eggs and for helping the little ones find them! Hope you brought your Easter Basket!! Easter Blessings!! Encounter The Risen Christ We prayed, fasted and gave alms and now we celebrate Easter joy! Our Lenten journey with CRS Rice Bowl ends as we encounter our risen Lord. We reflect on our brothers and sisters whom we have walked with in India, Zambia, El Salvador, Mexico, Ethiopia and Hawaii. And we commit to bring Easter joy to each person we meet in our daily lives. Don t forget to turn in your CRS Rice Bowl!! EASTER FLOWER DONATIONS IN MEMORY OF extreme Saint Anthony Teens in Christ (Open to all High School students) We are an Easter people and Alleluia is our song! - St. John Paul II No XSTATIC tonight, but we will be playing Family Feud next week on April 23rd! Joe & Edna Basso Henry Baumgarten Bill Burbank Nick Coccia Michael & Evalyn DePalma Pierre & Berthe DeSchryver Dan Farnsworth Kath Geyer Anna Cuc Thi Ha Nicholas Hartung Richardson Harvey Anne Kenyon Laczay Family Anthony Marino Sam Marino Mari Mendizabal Liz Nicol Matt Palluck Carmen Philippidis Frank J. Ragany Piper Rosich Randy Smedley John Smith Phyl & Don Spencer James & Renee Stokes Irene Templin Antonio Trevino, Sr. Nicholas Votaw Louis Young Eugenia Zillman Anne Baumgarten Mr. & Mrs. R. Brozinick May Coccia John & Theresa Courtney Vincent DePalma Carmel Elliot Mr. & Mrs. S. Georgiou Louis Gurgiolo CeCelia Hartung Richard Hartung Patrick Healy Charles Kenyon Robert Low Charles & Lena Marino Thelma McArthur Bogart Nicol Lou & Elvine Noferi Petroczy Family George Philippidis Teresita Roig Joe & Marian Silvestro Robert Smedley Nick Smith James & Clara Stokes Gus Templin Pat & Theresa Tozzi Antonio Trevino, Jr. Bertha & Henry Wadors Madeline Young Don t forget: Our end of year party will be this Tuesday, April 18th! Get stoked!! This is our last BLAST of the year, so you don t want to miss it! March 21 st was the last day of C.R.E.A.T.E. for our 6 th grade students who were studying the Bible this year. Tuesday, April 4 th, was the last day for elementary C.R.E.A.T.E. students until September. I want to thank all the Catechists for their dedication and faith sharing with the children at Saint Anthony Parish. I would also like to thank the parents of those children for their support of our religious education program. Faith is what makes life bearable at times and teaching our children this at an early age is a gift. Thank you! BLAST (7 th & 8 th grade) will have their last class on Tuesday, April 18 th. Thank you BLAST and SALT for putting together the Easter Eggs for the Easter Egg Hunt on Sunday, April 16 th after the 10:30 a.m. Mass. You are awesome! Our Sunday School Kindergarten program will continue until the first Sunday in May when the children will bring forth flowers for the Blessed Mother Mary at the 10:30 a.m. Mass. Thank you! God bless you all, Joann Maier
DIOCESAN NEWS, CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING & MORE PARISH EVENTS Alleluia On Easter Sunday and throughout the Easter Season, we sing and say Alleluia to express our joy! Alleluia means Praise Yahweh! Worldwide Marriage Encounter Married Couples: Marriage Encounter is a positive, simple common sense, private experience between you and your spouse, that revitalizes marriage by helping you to see again those loving qualities in each other that you may be taking for granted. The next Marriage Encounter Weekend is May 19-21, 2017 in Mountain View. For more information, visit our website at: sanjosewwme.org or contact Ken & Claranne at 408-782-1413 or applications@sanjosewwme.org 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 2:42-47; Ps 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24; 1 Pt 1:3-9; Jn 20:19-31 DANCING FOR JOY: The people say that the sun dances on this day in joy for a risen Savior. Alexander Carmichael SAS (Saint Anthony Seniors) HAPPENINGS Please plan to attend our meeting on Monday, April 10th, to finalized those plans and start preparing for our Annual Mother s Day Bake Sale! UPCOMING EVENTS/OUTINGS Friday, April 21st - Almost Famous Meatloaf Dinner at LifeMoves/Julian Street Inn Sunday, May 7th - Fortino Winery, Gilroy - Tasting and Picnic Lunch Friday, May 12th - SAS Meeting, 7 p.m. @ McKean Church May 13-14th - Annual Mother s Day Bake Sale - After all Masses All parishioners (55 and older) are welcome to join SAS, please come to a meeting or call an officer (Tom Victorine, Jeanne Schwab or Cheryl Buiano) for more information. CPR and Defibrillator Training Do you know what to do in the case of a medical emergency? Is your training up to date (typically valid for 2 years)? Are you a teenager looking for CPR certification for babysitting? The Saint Anthony Seniors have come to the rescue. Our volunteers have planned a training morning with Lion Heart Safety to provide CPR and defibrillator instructions. The training is open to all teenagers and adults. The event requires a minimum number of attendees so please email Tracey in the Parish Office at: churchstanthony@aol.com, and let us know if you are interested in attending. Saturday, May 20, 2017 from 10:00 a.m. Cost is $40 per person. Saint Anthony Prayer Box Giving a voice to your silent intentions. For any other intentions you wish to offer...have you heard those words in Mass and thought I wish I could say this out loud but I just can t and then the moment passes and you are disappointed. We understand that feeling and have an idea we believe will help that moment feel more fulfilling for you. In the Vestibule is a prayer box and some note cards. You are invited to write your anonymous prayer intentions on a card and place it into the box. During Mass the box will be brought forward and blessed. The prayers will not be read out loud and they will be shredded after Mass. May those intentions you keep in the silence of your hearts feel heard and blessed in a new and supportive way. Saint Anthony Pastoral Council Saint Anthony Pastoral Council is currently seeking parishioners interested in being considered for a position on the Pastoral Council. Our mission is to develop, organize and lead the spiritual and strategic direction of the parish. Please contact Patti Rottjakob at psrottjakob@gmail.com with questions regarding time, commitment and service. 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! Kay Banchero, Mary Hogg, Katie Hsu, Memecio Jungel, Louella Matthews, Josephine Montanaro, Anita O Neill, Gloria Oliva Dee Parsons, Sally Pfeiffer, Harris Rea, Bill Slack, Doreen Smith, Debbie Vosters, Jessica Votaw 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
FROM THE PASTOR S DESK: Last Sunday we blessed Palm branches, waved them in jubilation, sang Hosanna, and listened to Saint Matthew s account of the Passion, preparing for Holy Week. To appreciate this Easter Sunday, its full import can only be known after celebrating the Triduum: one celebration that takes place over three days. On Holy Thursday we received the sacred oils (used in the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, Anointing of the sick and Holy Orders) blessed by our Bishop Patrick McGrath, heard how Jesus served his disciples at the Last Supper by washing their feet, taking on the role of a slave, and told them to do what he did. If you wish to be my disciples, follow me, and serve others. Gladly we celebrated the Eucharist, the gift of life that Christ gives to us over and over again, and then kept watch in silent prayer before the reserved Eucharist. We came back together Friday evening to listen to Saint John s account of the Passion, prayed for the needs of the whole world and then venerated the wood of a cross. It was on a tree, at once a throne and at the same time a cruel instrument of death for Jesus who conquered death to free us from sin. Quietly, reverently, individuals, families, people came to venerate that symbol of our salvation. After a communion rite we departed silently. Last night at the Easter Vigil, the faithful gathered in the darkness to experience the light of the new fire. We took that flame with us by way of lit candles into the darkened church to sing God s praises in the Exsultet, hear the stories of our faith from Genesis to Ezekiel to Romans, sang God s glory, and finally heard the Gospel account of Jesus resurrection. Saint Matthew tells us that the women discovered the empty tomb and an angel tells them to go back and tell the disciples, He has been raised from the dead, and he is going before you to Galilee; there you will see him. We renewed our baptismal promises, dipped hands into the waters of the font, received the bread and cup of eternal salvation in communion and went forth singing Alleluia! We went forth into the night buoyed up by the gift of salvation, the wonders of redemption and the story of our faith expressed and witnessed once more. Today, on this Easter day we continue to sing God s praises in the Gloria, offer acclamations of joy in singing Alleluia and pray that the Lord continue to raise us up. For that is the nature of the Paschal mystery, that even though we still carry crosses, God raises us up, gives us the courage to live each and every day, to come again and again to this sacred place to be renewed in spirit. May this Easter be for you a new moment of faith, rekindle your hope and bring you here again and again. May Saint Anthony be your destination place every Sunday for worship! On behalf of the parish pastoral staff, I wish you and your families a Blessed and Happy Easter!! Alleluia! Alleluia! Easter Blessings, Father Larry Hendel Rectory Update We have $841,345.92 pledged to the Rectory Campaign. To date: $752,310.38 has been paid. We hope that the remaining balance of $89,771.54 will be fulfilled by December, 2017. We are very grateful for your support of this project. Watch for updates on construction at: www.churchstanthony.com/rectory-project-updates/ ADA 2017 Proclaiming God s Love, Together in Christ Many thanks for your participation in this Appeal. If you have not yet made a gift, please reflect on what you can do to make a difference. Every gift is valued and respectfully used. It is not too late, and we want your participation and need your support! Please consider a pledge, payable through December 2017, or a one-time gift. Gift envelopes are available at the back of the church or in the Parish Office. May God bless you and all the wonderful parishioners of our parish, and of our diocesan faith community, thank you for your continued support. 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 We welcome all the new families joining us today for Mass. We hope that you have enjoyed our unique sense of community and are leaving Mass with a greater sense of connection and purpose. If you feel you would like to continue attending Mass with us, we encourage you to introduce yourself to Fr. Larry and to register with the Parish Office, forms are available in the vestibule of the church. This allows us to keep in touch with you and gives you a Catholic church to call home. Welcome to Saint Anthony! Coming Attraction South of the Border Casino de Mayo Night You won t have to go South of the Border for our Fiesta! Grab your sombrero and maracas and enjoy taquitos, margaritas and more on Friday, May 5th Cinco de Mayo! Enjoy a night with other parishioners listening to music, gaming and a chance to win prizes. Tickets will be sold the weekends of April 22nd-23rd and April 29th-30th. Event tickets are $35 (Tickets will not be sold the night of the event). Your ticket includes non-alcoholic Beverages, hors d oeuvres, dessert and gaming tickets. Alcoholic beverages will also be available for a donation. Fiesta begins at 6:30 p.m. and ends at 10:00 p.m. This is Nacho Average Cinco de Mayo party after this Fiesta you will need a Siesta! If you are interested in volunteering to help with the event contact Ken Wadors at kwadors@sbcglobal.net or 408-921- 1002. Muchas Garcias!