Christmas Schedule Page 2 December 21, 2014 Christmas Schedule St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church Christmas Eve - Wednesday, December 24, 2014 Family Mass (English) - 6:00 pm Christmas Concert - 9:30 PM; Mass of the Nativity (English) - 10:00 pm Midnight Mass (Español) - 12:00 am Christmas Day - Thursday, December 25, 2014 Mass at Dawn (English) - 7:00 am Mass During the Day (English) - 9:00 am Mass During the Day (English) - 11:30 am ** No Evening Mass - No Misa en la Tarde ** New Year s Day - Thursday, January 1, 2015 Wednesday - 8:00 am ** NO Evening Mass ** Confession Schedule Tuesday (December 23): 7:00-8:00 pm * There will be NO CONFESSIONS at 4:00 pm on Tuesday, December 24th * ** The Parish Office will be closed December 24, 2014 - January 2, 2015 ** Merry Christmas and have a Blessed New Year! Liturgical Celebrations and Devotions SUNDAY EUCHARIST - MASS Saturday Vigil 5:00 PM Sunday 7:00, 9:00, 11:30 AM (Eng); 5:00 PM (Esp) WEEKDAY EUCHARIST Monday-Friday 6:30 AM Tuesday & Friday 5:15 PM First Friday 7:00 PM (Esp) HOLY DAYS 5:15 PM (Vigil); 6:30 AM, 8:15 AM (School), 12:15 PM, 5:15 PM, 7:00 PM (Spanish) EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT Perpetual Adoration in the Chapel 24 HOURS Please contact Fay Fletcher to sign up - 951.682.9076 WEEKDAY MARIAN DEVOTIONS Our Lady of Perpetual Help 5:00 PM (Every Tuesday) MINISTRY TO THE HOMEBOUND AND SICK Contact the Parish Office for a visitation or the Sacraments BULLETIN DEADLINE: Monday 12:00 PM The Sacraments Sacrament of Holy Matrimony: You must contact the Parish Office for an appointment with one of the priests at least six months in advance of the marriage date. Confirmation: This is a multi-year program. Please contact the Directors of Religious Education of English or Spanish. Sacrament of Reconciliation: Tuesday & Friday: 4:00-5:00 PM Saturday: 3:45-4:45 PM Anointing of the Sick: In case of medical emergency or grave illness, please call 951.276.0290. Baptism: Baptisms are celebrated every last Saturday each month at 10:00 AM. You must call the Parish Office first regarding requirements and for preparation classes. Religious Education of Children: This is a multi-year program of Religious Education. Please call the Directors of Religious Education of English or Spanish. Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults: Adults inquiring about Baptism, First Eucharist or Confirmation, please call Chris Gallardo, 626.221.9469.
Parish & Community Activities Page 3 December 21, 2014 CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS AS NEVER BEFORE! Do you know what life was like when Christ was born? What did they wear, eat, drink or speak? What did the children do to learn & play? How did they survive the Roman oppression? COME AND SEE!! WALK THE STREETS OF BETHLEHEM WITH THE ANIMALS! ENTER THE GLADIATOR SCHOOL IF YOU DARE! PLAY, TASTE, SMELL & SEE IT COME ALIVE! EXPERIENCE THE BIRTH OF CHRIST THE STREETS OF BETHLEHEM - THE STORY OF CHRISTMAS SATURDAY & SUNDAY DECEMBER 20 & 21-5:00-9:00 PM DECEMBER 19 (FRIDAY ONLY) 5:00-9:00 PM - ESPAÑOL FREE TO ALL!! Corpus Christi Catholic Church 3760 McKinley St. Corona, CA 92879 www.streetsofbethlehem.net For more information, call Mary Krueger (951) 202-9910 Retirement Fund for Religious Thank you! We can certainly call you friends because of the way you care for our retired members, writes a religious brother. Your gift to last week s collection for the Retirement Fund for Religious benefits some 35,000 senior sisters, brothers and religious order priests. May God bless you for your generosity! Christmas Eve Family Mass The Christmas Eve Family Mass will be held at 6:00pm on Wednesday, December 24, 2014. The remaining rehearsal date is: December 22 (6:30 PM). For more information contact Debbie Ellsworth at (951) 288-3256. Upcoming Parish Events. Las Posadas - December 21st - 6:00 PM - Hall Advent Reconciliation - December 23rd - 7:00 PM - Church Christmas Eve Family Mass - December 24-6:00 PM Christmas Eve Mass at Night - 9:30 PM (Concert); 10:00 PM - Mass; 12:00 AM (Misa en Español) Christmas Masses - 7:00 AM, 9:00 AM, 11:30 PM (No 5:00 PM Spanish Mass)
Parish & Community Activities Page 4 December 21, 2014 The Catechism Quiz for the Month of December The question was: The Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary is celebrated every December 8th. Why is this feast day called the Immaculate Conception? And the answer is: Through the centuries the Church became ever more aware that Mary, full of grace through God, was redeemed from the moment of her conception (CCC, no. 491). Mary was preserved from the time of her conception from Original Sin - this is called the Immaculate Conception. Hope to see you all in January, 2015. Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy 2015! THE GIFT OF LEGACY If you are planning a Will or Living Trust, why not consider leaving a legacy gift to St. Francis de Sales? Your generosity and support of St. Francis would be remembered for a lifetime. By doing so, you would become a lifelong member of St. Francis de Sales Legacy. Contact the Parish Office for additional details. Thank you. Sleeping Bags for the Homeless St. Francis de Sales is looking for your help in providing NEW, adult-size sleeping bags for the homeless. These sleeping bags can be purchased at any sporting goods store, i.e., Big 5, Sports Authority, Target, Walmart, etc. Please bring these items to the parish office or you may bring them to the Mass you attend and leave them in the main entrance to the church. We will need at least twenty (20) sleeping bags before Winter. Thank you for your giving spirit toward those in need. St. Francis de Sales Catholic School 4205 Mulberry St Riverside, CA 92501 Principal: Kathy Kothlow Phone: (951) 683 5083 Day Care: (951) 683 5006 www.sfdslions.com Highlights of the Pastoral Council Meeting December 3, 2014 1. The Pastoral Council reviewed two procedures that will improve communication between the Pastoral Council and the parish community: reporting the highlights of the monthly meeting in the parish bulletin and putting the approved pastoral council minutes on the parish website. 2. The Pastoral Council is currently seeking new members; the goal is to have 12 members on the council. 3. Fr. Reno reviewed the planning process for the Bishop s Visitation to the parish on February 27 - March 1, 2015. 4. The Council reviewed the calendar of parish events for 2015. Peter Bradley President, Pastoral Council
Calendar of Events and Mass Schedules Page 5 December 21, 2014 Sunday, December 21 * Youth Mass Liturgy: 9:00 AM Mass * Altar Society Coffee & Doughnuts - Hall English CCD Classes: 10:15-11:25 AM Confirmation I, II, III Classes: 8:00-10:00 AM Youth Group Bible Study: 1:30 PM - Room 4 Quinceañera Rehearsal: 2:30 PM - Church Las Posadas: 6:00 PM - Hall Monday, December 22 Spanish Confirmation/RCIA Classes: 5:15 PM Children s Christmas Mass Rehearsal: 6:30 PM - Church SFDS School Closed - Christmas Vacation: December 22, 2014 - January 2, 2015 Tuesday, December 23 English Bible Study: 10:00 AM - MPR OLPH Novena: 5:00 PM - Church Women of Faith Bible Study: 6:30 PM - Library Spanish Choir Rehearsal: 6:30 PM - MR Grupo de Oracion: 7:00 PM - Hall Advent Confessions: 7:00 PM - Church Legion of Mary: 7:30 PM - Room 1 Wednesday, December 24 Parish Office Closed - Christmas Vacation December 24, 2014 - January 2, 2015 No English Choir Rehearsal Thursday, December 25 - Christmas Day No English RCIA / No Estudio de Biblia - Christmas Friday, December 26 Saturday, December 27 No Spanish CCD Quinceañera: 2:00 PM - Church A.A. Meeting: 6:00 PM - Room 1 Sunday, December 28 Serra Club Coffee & Doughnuts - Hall No English CCD / Confirmation - Christmas Break ALTAR SOCIETY SCHEDULE Jo Hersman, Betty Andrews, Michelle Gonzales & Lilian Gonzales will have Altar duty on Saturday, December 27, at 8:30 AM. Saturday - December 20 5:00 PM Edda Osaba Sunday - December 21 7:00 AM Joseph Gilwood 9:00 AM Ben Clark 11:30 AM Salvacion Duante For the Parishioners of SFDS 5:00 PM Olivia Gonzalez Monday - December 22 6:30 AM Jimmy Rodriguez Tuesday - December 23 6:30 AM For Your Intention 5:15 PM Paul Cantwell - Happy Birthday! Wednesday - December 24 - Christmas Eve 6:30 AM For Your Intentions 6:00 PM Thomas Cantwell 10:00 PM Joseph John Gilwood 12:00 PM Rosalio & Leonor Nevarez Thursday - December 25 - Christmas Day 7:00 AM Joseph John Gilwood 9:00 AM Benjamin Treviño 11:30 AM Jamshed Bamji ** No 5:00 PM Spanish Mass ** Friday - December 26 6:30 AM For Your Intentions 5:15 PM Art Delgiudice Saturday - December 27 8:00 AM Lucy Gomez (Sunday Vigil Mass) 5:00 PM Audrey Rodarte - SI Sunday - December 28 7:00 AM Joseph John Gilwood 9:00 AM Lucy Gomez 11:30 AM Raymond Soria 5:00 PM Airel Ruiz-Marquez - SI For the Parishioners of SFDS
Fourth Sunday of Advent Page 6 December 21, 2014 ECHOING MARY S DECISION The angel Gabriel today confronts Mary with a mystery. The mystery of salvation in Christ is not a mystery that is solved, but a reality beyond our comprehension that we must choose to enter into. In the liturgy of the Eastern Church, everyone waits to see if Mary will enter into the mystery: God waits, Adam and Eve and all the souls of the dead who long for paradise wait, angels wait for new heavenly companions. There is much rejoicing when her decision is yes. We have less dramatic choices offered to us, but the mystery of our salvation in Christ is by no means solved. We may understand it a bit better due to Mary s yes. We may be a bit closer to it through the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It still remains a mystery to which we all must give our own yes. Soon we will be singing O come, let us adore him. May our Advent prayer, our echo of Mary s yes, continue then, so we may enter into the mystery of our salvation in Jesus Christ, God among us. Copyright J. S. Paluch Co. TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION By the year 800, when anointing was defined as the proper office of priests, very complicated rituals began to take shape. Perhaps this was to reassure the laity, who had memories of an earlier practice, that the new way was not only better but impossible for a layperson to conduct. Blessings and sprinkling of holy water, the singing of as many as seven psalms, penance, anointing of all the senses, viaticum, all capped off by the clothing of the sick person in penitential garments, were part of the rite. This proved unwieldy, and creative spirits got to work. By the 1500s people made distinctions between visiting the sick, anointing and viaticum. The attempt of the Church to be faithful to the image of a healing Christ has some complicated history, including centuries when the celebration was rare. Most sick people had no access to the rites at all; only monastics or the well off had much hope of this care. Today, those unhappy days are long behind us, and the care of the sick is an essential task in every parish s life. As Christmas approaches almost everyone comes in contact with someone who is a candidate for pastoral care. You live out the best of our tradition when you arrange for a sick person to receive Holy Communion or the sacrament of the sick and the consolation of regular contact with the faith community. Rev. James Field, Copyright J. S. Paluch Co. READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: 1 Sm 1:24-28; 1 Sm 2:1, 4-8abcd; Lk 1:46-56 Tuesday: Mal 3:1-4, 23-34; Ps 25:4-5ab, 8-10, 14; Lk 1:57-66 Wednesday: 2 Sm 7:1-5, 8b-12, 14a, 16; Ps 89:2-5, 27, 29; Lk 1:67-79 Thursday: Vigil: Is 62:1-5; Ps 89:4-5, 16-17, 27, 29; Acts 13:16-17, 22-25; Mt 1:1-25 [18-25] Night: Is 9:1-6; Ps 96:1-3, 11-13; Ti 2:11-14; Lk 2:1-14 Dawn: Is 62:11-12; Ps 97:1, 6, 11-12; Ti 3:4-7; Lk 2:15-20 Day: Is 52:7-10; Ps 98:1-6; Heb 1:1-6; Jn 1:1-18 [1-5, 9-14] Friday: Acts 6:8-10; 7:54-59; Ps 31:3cd-4, 6, 8ab, 16bc, 17; Mt 10:17-22 Saturday: 1 Jn 1:1-4; Ps 97:1-2, 5-6, 11-12; Jn 20:1a, 2- Sunday: 8 Sir 3:2-6, 12-14 or Gn 15:1-6; 21:1-3; Ps 128:1-5 or Ps 105:1-6, 8-9; Col 3:12-21 [12-17] or Hb 11:8, 11-12, 17-19; Lk 2:22-40 [22, 39-40]
Liturgical Ministries Altar Servers Mary Waterman 681-3048 Altar Society Donna Pitell 688-0985 Choir (English) Mary Fall 781-6772 Coro (Español) Josefina Oliva 892-8075 Organist Prince Ward 235-5220 Eucharistic Adoration Fay Fletcher 682-9076 Eucharistic Ministers T. Waldschmitt 505-9814 *English/Spanish Lectores Francisco Mendoza (909)754-8692 *Español Lectors Lorraine Mooney 682-1659 *English Ushers/Hospitality Ray Serna 684-1607 Catechetical Ministries Adult Faith Formation Chris Gallardo (626)221-9469 *RCIA *RCIA Español Victor Grajeda 924-8614 Baptisms Parish Office 686-4004 Bible Study Fr. Louis 683-6204 *English/Español Youth Group C.R.Y. Christina Gutierrez/Bobby Huertero *Christ Reuniting Youth 686-5503 Quinceañeras Alba Dominguez 318-7511 Religious Education Toni Bastian 992-8815 *English MINISTRIES / MINISTERIOS Welcome to the Parish Bienvenido a la Parroquia Fill out and place in collection basket Llene esta forma y déjela en la canasta de la colecta Last Name: Apellido First Name: Primer Nombre Address: Domicilio City and Zip: Ciudad y Codigo Postal DEVOTIONS & EVANGELIZATION Mother of Perpetual Help Novena: Every Tuesday at 5:00 PM Legion of Mary: Every Tuesday at 7:30 PM - Room 1 Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament: 24 hours/ 7 days in the St. Bernard Chapel First Friday Mass: 7:00 PM (Español) ST. FRANCIS DE SALES FOOD PANTRY Religious Education Consuelo Grajeda 924-8614 *Español R/E Office Monica Sandoval 786-7665 Parish Ministries Bereavement Ministry R. Pucciarelli-Davis 779-6958 Card Makers Ministry Toni Bastian 992-8815 Liturgical Dance Amanda Cardenas 333-3476 Parish Council Peter Bradley (909)910-5098 Pastoral Care Maureen Riggs 321-9956 Spanish Ministries Alba Dominguez 318-7511 St. Anne s Sewdality Angie Nudge 684-0570 Weddings Monica Archuletta 318-0234 *English Weddings/Bodas Alba Dominguez 318-7511 *Español Women s Ministry R. Pucciarelli-Davis 779-6958 Catholic Ministries Catholic Charities 689-1803 Knights of Columbus Mike Brunner 205-5334 Legion of Mary 727-6181 Marriage Encounter Robert & Denise Borruel 653-7905 Right to Life Pregnancy Hotline 784-2725 Riverside Life Services Office 784-2422 Serra Club Charline Gajdos 683-1672 St. Vincent de Paul Office 684-7386 Prayer Groups Grupo de Oración Martin & Gloria Ruiz 359-4719 We are still in need of food every week. Any non-perishable items, such as canned soups, canned fruits, canned vegetables, peanut butter and jelly, rice, beans, dry cereal, energy bars, flour, sugar, cooking oil, pasta and spaghetti sauce are welcome. You can bring them to the Mass you attend and leave the items in the green bins at the main entrance of the church. PLEASE DO NOT DONATE ANY ITEMS WITH PAST EXPIRATION DATES! Your contributions are most needed and appreciated. I would like to receive parish envelopes Quiero recibir sobres de la Parroquia Yes/Si No *We will mail you a complete Parish Registration Form* * Le enviaremos una forma de registro completo de la parroquia *
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