ST. TERESA OF AVILA CATHOLIC COMMUNITY 3000 North Lompa Lane, Carson City, NV 89706 Phone: (775) 882-1968 Fax: (775) 883-7063 Emergency: (775) 882-1968 E-mail: stteresa@stteresaofavila.net Website: www.stteresaofavila.net Parish Office Hours Monday - Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Mass Schedule: Monday: Communion Service 7:00am Tuesday-Thursday- Friday: Mass 7:00am Wednesday: Mass 12:15pm Saturday: Mass 4:00pm Sunday: Masses 7:45am, 9:30am, 11:15am, 1:00pm Bilingual Mass & 5:00pm Youth Mass T.V. Catholic Mass: Sunday at 9:00am Channel 8 St. Teresa School Peggy Burger, Principal Bonnie Silsby, Assistant Principal 567 S. Richmond Ave. Carson City, NV 89703 Office (775) 882-2079 Fax (775) 882-6135 Website: www.stts.org Child Development Center Cindy Supko, Director (775) 283-0261 Sacraments Baptism: Parents preparing for baptism must call the office to set up a welcome interview prior to attending a baptism preparation class. Godparents must be confirmed and regularly attending mass, registered in a parish, and attend a baptism class. Marriage: The Catholic parties must be a registered and a practicing member of the parish. Please call the parish office and set up an appointment with a priest at least 6 months prior to your desired wedding month. Reconciliation (Confessions): Saturday: 2:30-3:30 pm or by appointment. Anointing of the Sick: The Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick should be celebrated when someone is seriously ill, going in for surgery, or at health risk. Please call the parish office. Parish Staff & Ministries Fr. Tom Babu, Pastor Fr. Hermes Binlayo, Parochial Vicar Sr. Marie McGloin, S.A., Pastoral Associate Dn. Gil Coleman, Baptism Class Preparation Dn. Michael Johnson, Prison Ministry Dn. Dennis Schreiner, Centering Prayer Dn. Craig Lagier, St. Vincent Advisor and Homeless Ministry Delia Rodriguez, Office Manager Norma Porter & Stephanie Camacho, Receptionists Roland Fournier, Finance Manager Religious Education 775-882-2130 Fax 775-883-7063 Kari Anderson, CRE: 1st-5th Grade Ext 113 Grace Kengle, CRE: 6th-High School Ext 111 Tina Akerley, Pastoral Assistant Ext 107 Delia Rodriguez, Pastoral Assistant Ext 114 Youth Ministry Grace Kengle, Youth Minister Monica Howk, Youth Activities Director RCIA Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults and Children Kari Anderson, Adult Director Ext 113 Terri Domitrovich, Children Director Ext 112 Carol Tate, Pastoral Assistant Ext 106 Liturgy, Music & Environment Steve Azzopardi, Director Ext 101 Terri Domitrovich, Children s Liturgy of the Word Ext 112 Facility Maintenance Jeffrey Warnar, Ext 117
July 14th/15th, 2018 Page 1 Dearly beloved in Christ, I am so grateful for the wonderful reception and fellowship after each masses on my arrival. I was a little tired at the end of the weekend. I am learning the Parish and slowly settling into my Rectory as well. Meanwhile I am extremely grateful to the community for taking time to introduce yourself and offer your hearty welcome. Thank you for the reception organized by the Pastoral Council. I learned to drive around the other day to get a feel of the town. I found my gym and some good stores and nice restaurants. I hope all of you had a wonderful fourth celebration. I had fun with our annual 4th of July celebration. I did pray for Fr. Chuck as he takes new responsibility at the Cathedral as I have taken up here. Please know that the priests need prayers and support as they move into new avenues. We have to leave what we have built or had served in the name of the Lord and transition is painful. I struggle with it. The open arms and welcoming embraces make me feel welcomed. I am really proud of the angels and precious volunteers who give their best out here and try to organize and help the Liturgy and Church activities function. I am learning from you folks being together as a community of faithful. The main enemy of trust and perseverance is fear. Fear is to the Christian what kryptonite is to Superman: it saps our strength, so that we can no longer fulfill this mission of being Christ's witnesses in the world. Perhaps what we are most afraid of is what other people will think of us. When we're at a restaurant and the food arrives, we feel self-conscious about saying the blessing: What will everyone think of us? When we're at work and our co-workers are gossiping, making vulgar jokes, or even altering the books, we are afraid that if we don't join in they will start gossiping about us. When our buddies sneak off to "experiment" with drugs, drinking, and sex, we are afraid that our popularity will suffer unless we go along with them. This fear of what other people will say about us is a real fear. And God knows that it's hard for us to overcome it. But with his grace we can, as today's Readings show us. In the First Reading, Amos, a chosen prophet, was rejected by the very people that God sent him to. They refused to listen to his prophecy, insulted him, and sent him packing. And yet, he was a true prophet, beloved and chosen by God. And Jesus, when he gives his instructions to the Apostles in today's Gospel, actually tells them how to behave when people reject them - he knows ahead of time that it's going to happen! God is well aware that faithful Christians will not always receive a warm welcome in this fallen world. But he calls us to be faithful anyway, to trust and persevere in what is right and good even when it is not popular, because, as today's Psalm reminds us, that's how we will "see God's kindness and experience his salvation." May He help us to be more faithful to God and trust and persevere even when we are challenged. God Bless and have a blessed weekend. Fr.Tom Babu
15th Sunday in Ordinary Time Page 2 EXCESSIVE EXUBERANCE There is a Russian fable about a very greedy bear. The bear found an acorn but then it wanted more so it kept digging, looking for more. One day he dug very deeply that the roots of the tree were cut into pieces. Finally, the tree spoke, Look above, stupid bear. I am the source of your food. If you destroy my roots, you will have no more acorns. Today s readings remind us of two things: God is the source of all blessings and we are called to live a life of simplicity to live a spirit of detachment. In the second reading, Paul reminds us that God is the source of all blessings: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessings in the heaven. Counting our blessings is one thing that we need to do regularly. Counting our blessings gives us the right perspective to see the things we have and not focus on what we lack. Often times we are quite good in noticing what we don t have and neglect what we have. We are like the stupid bear which keeps on digging for more acorns because we thought we don t have enough. In the process of endless digging for more acorns we end up taking unreasonable risks; we end up living an unsustainable lifestyle. Alan Greenspan, the former Fed chairman, said that the financial meltdown of 2008 was in way rooted in the excessive exuberance to look for more profit that resulted to unreasonable risk taking not just in banking and investment institutions but in individual consumers as well. In the excessive exuberance to search for more acorns we sought instant gratification and we failed to look beyond our own needs and beyond the present moment. Indeed, greed makes people do strange things. It s hard to imagine Linus and Lucy working together. But the excessive exuberance for more gifts successfully brought them together. And in our endless search for more acorns we end up cutting the roots of the tree that gives us the acorns. We end up relying more on our efforts and on the acorn and not on the tree that gives us the acorn. Counting our blessings allow us to see who we truly are---as blessed individuals, as beings totally dependent on the goodness of God. The most damaging effect of our greedy search for more acorns is that we end up interiorly poor or empty. Counting our blessings brings us back to God who alone can fill in our deepest needs; who alone can satisfy our deepest longings. In the gospel, Jesus sends his disciples to live with simplicity to live with the spirit of detachment from material things. It is not that material things are bad. They are good in themselves. It s the way we see and use these things that matters. We own these things and not the other way around. We use them in so far as they help us in becoming good human beings. We let go of them if they block us in becoming the persons that God created us to be. There is a danger of becoming attached to material things. We tend to define ourselves (or others) by what we (they) have or don t have. Today s readings remind us that Christian life is more about being rather than having. We need to regularly practice the disciplines of interiority count our blessings; strive to live with simplicity; labor for justice; be mindful of God s revelation through the Word and through others. Without these spiritual exercises it would be hard to flourish as human and as Christian. Without these spiritual exercises, our life is deeply impoverished even if materially we are rich a life without depth. Without these spiritual exercises we end up like Amaziah, the king s priest in the first reading who was serving himself more than serving God. Amaziah became attached to power and perks which are incidentals of the office of the priesthood, he was working for acorns for comfort and security, rather than God s will. Fr. H Praying with today s readings: 1. We ve been blessed in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens. I thank God for all the blessings in life. This will help me to travel light in life. 2. I make today s responsorial psalm as my prayer: Lord, let us see your kindness.
Ministry in Action Page 3 WELCOME FATHER TOM!!!!! FROM ST. TERESA OF AVILA COMMUNITY. WE LOOK FORWARD TO OUR TIME TOGETHER. YOUR PARISHONERS Upcoming Parish Events Monday, July 16: 7:00am Scripture Communion Service, Chapel 4:45pm-6:45pm Adoration, Chapel 7:00pm-9:00pm Charismatic On-Going Formation, Chapel Tuesday, July 17: 7:00am Mass, Chapel 5:30pm Women s Bible Study, Chartz Hall 7:00pm-9:00pm Hispanic Prayer Group, Chapel Wednesday, July 18: 9:00am Centering Prayer, Music Room 12:15pm Mass, Chapel 7:00PM Encuentro Matrimonial Mundial, Chartz Hall Thursday, July 19: 7:00am Mass, Chapel 7:30am-1:00pm Adoration, Chapel 7:00pm Bible Study-Spanish, Chapel Friday, July 20: 7:00am Mass, Chapel 7:00pm Una Fe bien Construida, Chartz Hall 7:00pm Charismatic Faith Formation, Chapel Saturday, July 21: 8:30am Lay Carmelites Meeting, Music Room 11:00am Daniela Medina Quinceañera, Church 1:00pm Hryczyk Bacatan Wedding, Church 4:00pm Mass, Church Sunday, July 22: Masses 7:45am, 9:30am, 11:15am, 1:00pm & 5:00pm, Church Please pray for all ill in the parish, military, law enforcement, fire protection and their families. Please pray for the repose of the soul of Audie Trinidad, Kaitlyn Trinidad, Dana Trinidad, Allisson Trinidad, Mellissa Trinidad, Elmer Akerley, Linda Billman, Evelyn Larsen, and all parish deceased and their families. SPECIAL THANKS FROM FR. CHUCK The bulletin schedule did not allow me to get this little note out to you sooner due to the 4 th of July holiday, so this is my first opportunity to express my sincere appreciation for your many kind words, cards and gifts upon my departure from St. Teresa s. I must admit that I have not gotten through the cards yet I m still trying to get unpacked from way too many boxes! Special thanks to those who helped me get packed up and to the Women s Society for the very nice reception following all of the masses my last weekend. The food was delicious and the decorations even had an Italian flair! All was much appreciated by me and the many who came to say a word of farewell. I have remembered you all in my first masses at the Cathedral and give thanks for my many years with you. I trust that we will see each other again and know that we keep each other in prayer. THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING! Requested for this Week Wednesday, July 18th: 12:15pm Esther B. (d) by Eliesse Brown Friday, July 20th: 7:00am Jose Rodriguez (d) by Family Saturday, July 21st: 4:00pm Ysidoro and Barbarana Leon (d) by Leon Family Sunday, July 22nd: 7:45am James B. Beane III (d) by Ed and Justine Bradford 9:30am For the People of St. Teresa 11:15am Ray Mazy (Birthday) by Bob and Phyllis 1:00pm Barbara Hughes (Birthday) by Edna Lopez 5:00pm Jerry and Cecilia Hopper (2nd Wedding Anniversary) by Family (Mass times are available for special intentions) Mass intentions are now $10.00. Please come to the front office and list your intentions for your loved ones and those who are in need.
St. Teresa of Avila, Carson City, NV. Page 4 THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO HELPED TO MAKE OUR SUNSHINE SUMMER A HUGE SUCCESS. YOU ROCK!!! XAVIER DE LEON DENNIIS SHARP KATE TORRES ALEXA ONTIVEROS MAALI DE LEON VALERIE WAMSLEY KEVIN MARCELLA ANGEL MARTINEZ ANTHONY DIAZ KERYME SILIS ARIANA GUTIERREZ ALYSSA BUTLER MIGUEL GONDINEZ ANTON TORRES KITTY ZIEGLER ABBY CASTRO MICHAEL CARINE DEB WENTWORTH CHERRIE FOSCO HALEY BUTLER VICKI DOWNER-PATTERSON CHELSEA OLVERA BRIANNA CHAVEZ JOCELYN OLVERA KATHY COLE MAUREEN BROWER DEBBIE YOUNG BOB ROACH KIM ROACH PEGGY SFREDDO AND SUBARU St. Teresa of Avila Columbarium and Memorial Garden We are considering the construction of Phase 3 for our parish columbarium and so need to know the level of interest among our parishioners. The columbarium is available to parishioners and immediate family only. Both Phase 1 and 2 are fully reserved at this point. Currently we have about ten parishioners ready to commit to Phase 3. If there are an additional ten who are ready to commit to the purchase of a niche, we may be ready to move ahead. If you are interested please contact Roland in the parish office for more details soon. Timing is important if we will be able to construct before the heavy winter months. The Religious Education Department will have registration meetings for First Year and Second Year First Communion and Confirmation preparation classes on August 14th, 16th and 22nd at 5:30pm. Registration fees are $60.00 per child. You only need to attend one of the registration dates. Please bring a copy of your child s baptismal certificate. Thank you! STEWARDSHIP OF RESOURCES July 7th/8th, 2018 Offertory - $16,701.16 Votive 234.78 Coffee & Donuts 85.46 School Second Collection 838.00 St. Vincent De Paul - 585.00 Charity 75.00 Black and Native American 25.00 Peter s Pence/Holy Father - 50.00 ONLINE GIVING $ 5,818.00 In gratitude for the gifts we have received, our parish family and friends made a joyful return to the Lord of $17,859.40 and to special outreach of $735.00. We have over 2500 registered families. Weekly Budgeted Expense Category Salaries $8,867.10 Health/Benefits/Education 3,013.98 Maintenance -- 75.00 Utilities 1,436.92 Church /Office Supplies 2,080.19 Diocesan Assessments -- 1,886.71 Insurance-Prop.,Liability & Worker s Comp 455.69 Liturgy/Parish Events -394.23 Improvements - 359.62 School Subsidy & 2nd Collection 1,230.77 Parish Mission Statement We, the Catholic Community of St. Teresa of Avila, are a people who journey together in prayer and service, nourished and unified at the Word and Eucharist, and under the direction of the Holy Spirit. We are called to love one another and to share our gifts of time, talent, and resources to welcome and to bring our faith to all people!
St. Teresa of Avila, Carson City, NV. Page 5 SACRAMENTOS BAUTISMO: Los Padres en proceso para prepararse a bautizar deben establecer una cita para una entrevista inicial y después tendrá que tomar la clase pre-bautismal. Hable a la oficina de la parroquia para fijar su cita para la entrevista. Padrinos deben de venir a misa regularmente y asistir a una clase pre-bautismal. Por favor no haga arreglos de ningun tipo hasta que establesca la fecha de bautizo con el padre. MATRIMONIO: Los contrayentes católicos de este sacramento deben ser miembros practicantes de la parroquia y estar registrados. Por favor llamen a un sacerdote para una cita al menos 6 meses con prioridad a la fecha deseada para la boda. Por favor no haga arreglos hasta después de su cita. RECONCILIACION/CONFESION Sábados 2:30-3:30pm o por cita. UNCIÓN DE LOS ENFERMOS: el sacramento de la unción de los enfermos debe ser celebrado cuando una persona está seriamente enferma, va a tener una cirugía (operación quirúrgica), etc. Por favor llame a la oficina para recibir este sacramento. Thanks to all who bring food every week. It is used for those who need help in the parish. These are difficult times for many. You help good folks to eat and to maintain their dignity. Thank you! St. Teresa School is looking for a part time junior high religion teacher. Please contact or email principal, Peggy Burger for more details. pburger@stts.org or 775-882-2079 Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time July 15, 2018 Truth shall spring out of the earth, and justice shall look down from heaven. Psalm 85:12 READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Is 1:10-17; Ps 50:8-9, 16bc-17, 21, 23; Mt 10:34 11:1 Tuesday: Is 7:1-9; Ps 48:2-8; Mt 11:20-24 Wednesday: Is 10:5-7, 13b-16; Ps 94:5-10, 14-15; Mt 11:25-27 Thursday: Is 26:7-9, 12, 16-19; Ps 102:13-14ab, 15-21; Mt 11:28-30 Friday: Is 38:1-6, 21-22, 7-8; Is 38:10-12abcd, 16; Mt 12:1-8 Saturday: Mi 2:1-5; Ps 10:1-4, 7-8, 14; Mt 12:14-21 Sunday: Jer 23:1-6; Ps 23:1-6; Eph 2:13-18; Mk 6:30-34 El Departamento de Educación Religiosa tendrá junta de inscripciones para las clases de Primera Comunión y Confirmación de Primero y Segundo año, los días 14,16 y 22 de agosto a las 5:30 p.m. La tarifa de inscripción son $60.00 por niño. Solo necesita asistir a una de las fechas de registro. Por favor traiga una copia del certificado de bautismo de su hijo/a. Gracias! Decimoquinto Domingo del Tiempo Ordinario 15 de julio de 2018 La fidelidad brotó en la tierra y la justicia vino del cielo. Salmo 85 (84):12 LECTURAS DE LA SEMANA Lunes: Is 1:10-17; Sal 50 (49):8-9, 16bc-17, 21, 23; Mt 10:34 11:1 Martes: Is 7:1-9; Sal 48 (47):2-8; Mt 11:20-24 Miércoles: Is 10:5-7, 13b-16; Sal 94 (93):5-10, 14-15; Mt 11:25-27 Jueves: Is 26:7-9, 12, 16-19; Sal 102 (101):13-14ab, 15-21; Mt 11:28-30 Viernes: Is 38:1-6, 21-22, 7-8; Is 38:10-12abcd, 16; Mt 12:1-8 Sábado: Mi 2:1-5; Sal 10 (9):1-4, 7-8, 14; Mt 12:14-21 Domingo: Jer 23:1-6; Sal 23 (22):1-6; Ef 2:13-18; Mc 6:30-34 ORGANIZATIONS Women s Society, Co-Presidents, Colleen Butler 721-8965 and Liz Jacques (401)439-7553 Boy & Girl Scouts, Marty Schwedhelm, 883-0570 Altar Servers, Carol Tate, 775-224-2685 St Vincent de Paul Society, Tony, 882-1968 Knights of Columbus, Win Teeter, 775-443-8115 Lay Carmelite Community, Marlene Pearson, 882-6293 The Gabriel Project & Parish Coordinator, Kate Schwedhelm, 775-250-9565