ST. MARY PARISH 1333 58th Street, Sacramento CA 95819 www.stmarysacto.org Office Hours: Monday-Friday 8:00 am-4:00 pm Phone (916) 452-0296 Fax (916) 452-3908 PARISH INFORMATION MARRIAGE: Contact the Parish office at (916) 452-0296 6 months prior to the wedding date. Marriage Preparation classes are available. INFANT BAPTISM: Contact the Parish Office. Parents and godparents must attend class. ANOINTING OF THE SICK: Contact the Parish Office regarding sick, elderly who are at home, hospitals or special care facilities. MUSIC: For Music Ministry, call Ben (916) 383-6155 RCIA: Process for adults and children of catechetical age who are interested in joining the Catholic Church and baptized Catholics wanting to complete their initiation sacraments of Confirmation and Eucharist. Please call Michelle Mills at (916) 806-6876 CFF: Catholic youth are formed through the Parish Faith Formation Program (CFF). Deacon Lu (916) 452-0296x12 BULLETIN: Our church bulletin is prepared two weeks in advance. All submissions are reviewed by the Pastor. Email requests to traci@stmarysacto.org no later than the Thursday two weeks before. ST. MARY SCHOOL To enroll in Preschool or TK to 8th grade, please contact principal, Laura Allen at the school (916) 452-1100 or find more information on our website www.saintmaryschool.com Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time August 5, 2018 Do not work for food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life. John 6:27a MASS SCHEDULE Sunday 8:00, 9:30, 11:00am, and 6:00pm Daily Mass: Monday - Saturday 8:00am; Saturday 5:00pm (Vigil Mass) Holy Days: As announced in bulletin CONFESSION : Saturday: 3:30pm-4:30pm Or by appointment PAROCHIAL ADMINISTRATOR: Fr. James Narithookil, CMI frjames@stmarysacto.org PAROCHIAL VICAR : Fr. Sijo Chirayath, CMI frsijo@stmarysacto.org DEACONS: Deacon Luigi Del Gaudio, MSW deaconlu@stmarysacto.org Deacon George W. Kriske deacongeorge@stmarysacto.org BUSINESS MANAGER: Tracilyn Peters Email: traci@stmarysacto.org INFANT MARY CHAPEL Open Daily 6:30 am-5:00 pm Solemn Adoration: First Fridays 8:30 am-6:00pm PARISHIONER REGISTRATION: Please contact parish office at (916) 452-0296 FOLLOW OUR PARISH
Apostolic Exhortation (continued) THE GREAT CRITERION 95. In the twenty-fifth chapter of Matthew s Gospel, Jesus expands on the Beatitude that calls the merciful blessed. If we seek the holiness pleasing to God s eyes, this text offers us one clear criterion on which we will be judged. I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me. In fidelity to the Master 96. Holiness, then, is not about swooning in mystic rapture. As Saint John Paul II said: If we truly start out anew from the contemplation of Christ, we must learn to see him especially in the faces of those with whom he himself wished to be identified. The text of Matthew 25:35-36 is not a simple invitation to charity: it is a page of Christology which sheds a ray of light on the mystery of Christ. In this call to recognize him in the poor and the suffering, we see revealed the very heart of Christ, his deepest feelings and choices, which every saint seeks to imitate. 97. Given these uncompromising demands of Jesus, it is my duty to ask Christians to acknowledge and accept them in a spirit of genuine openness, sine glossa. In other words, without any ifs or buts that could lessen their force. Our Lord made it very clear that holiness cannot be understood or lived apart from these demands, for mercy is the beating heart of the Gospel. 98. If I encounter a person sleeping outdoors on a cold night, I can view him or her as an annoyance, an idler, an obstacle in my path, a troubling sight, a problem for politicians to sort out, or even a piece of refuse cluttering a public space. Or I can respond with faith and charity and see in this person a human being with a dignity identical to my own, a creature infinitely loved by the Father, an image of God, a brother or sister redeemed by Jesus Christ. That is what it is to be a Christian! Can holiness somehow be understood apart from this lively recognition of the dignity of each human being? 99. For Christians, this involves a constant and healthy unease. Even if helping one person alone could justify all our efforts, it would not be enough. The bishops of Canada made this clear when they noted, for example, that the biblical understanding of the jubilee year was about more than simply performing certain good works. It also meant seeking social change: For later generations to also be released, clearly the goal had to be the restoration of just social and economic systems, so there could no longer be exclusion. Ideologies striking at the heart of the Gospel 100. I regret that ideologies lead us at times to two harmful errors. On the one hand, there is the error of those Christians who separate these Gospel demands from their personal relationship with the Lord, from their interior union with him, from openness to his grace. Christianity thus becomes a sort of NGO stripped of the luminous mysticism so evident in the lives of Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Vincent de Paul, Saint Teresa of Calcutta, and many others. For these great saints, mental prayer, the love of God and the reading of the Gospel in no way detracted from their passionate and effective commitment to their neighbors; quite the opposite. Fr. James Narithookil, CMI Parochial Administrator
We Welcome the Following New Parishioners To Our Parish Family: Monica Delgado Brian & Kathleen Reilly We encourage all New Parishioners to take a moment to register. PARISH VOCATIONS MINISTRY Everyone is called by the Lord to a vocation. Some of us are called to the special vocations of Priesthood, Diaconate or Religious Life. In recent months, we have been asking families to bring home the Vocation Cross and to pray for vocations during the week. To continue to draw awareness to this ongoing need, we would like to form a Parish Vocations Ministry. If you are interested in serving this effort, please contact Deacon Lu at (916) 452-0296 Ext. 12 or at amdg946@sbcglobal.net. THE GIFT OF TREASURE With gratitude for the gifts they have received, Parishioners and visitors made a joyful return to the Lord of the following: July 29, 2018 Weekly Collection (including EOP) :$8,746.75* Weekly Goal (to cover expenses): $13,000.00 Please remember St. Mary s, your Spiritual Home, in your will. *This amount only represents weekly Sunday Mass collections. Other sources of income (i.e. donations, building fund, etc.) are not included in this number. READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Dn 7:9-10, 13-14; Ps 97:1-2, 5-6, 9; 2 Pt 1:16-19; Mk 9:2-10 Tuesday: Jer 30:1-2, 12-15, 18-22; Ps 102:16-21, 29, 22-23; Mt 14:22-36 or Mt 15:1-2, 10-14 Wednesday: Jer 31:1-7; Jer 31:10, 11-12ab, 13; Mt 15:21-28 Thursday: Jer 31:31-34; Ps 51:12-15, 18-19; Mt 16:13-23 Friday: 2 Cor 9:6-10; Ps 112:1-2, 5-9; Jn 12:24-26 Saturday: Hb 1:12 2:4; Ps 9:8-13; Mt 17:14-20 Sunday: 1 Kgs 19:4-8; Ps 34:2-9; Eph 4:30 5:2; Jn 6:41-51 Mass Intentions Requested By Saturday, August 4 8:00am Josip Batarelo + Bilandzich Family 5:00pm May Perri + Raymond & Nordine Buckley & Joyce Spears Sunday, August 5 8:00am Joseph, Mary, Anthony & Robert De Stefano + Angelo J. DeStefano 9:30am Arlene Licursi + Emily Rossi & Family 11:00am Macy & Lucy White Jim & Ginny Johnson 6:00pm For Our Parishioners and Their Prayer Requests Monday, August 6 8:00am Mark Mellish + Rebecca Ielati Mom Mom, Dad & Matt Tuesday, August 7 8:00am Stan Devereux + Jim & Ginny Johnson Duane Turner + Ron & MaryAnn Smart Wednesday, August 8 8:00am Emily Tait Emily Rossi & Family Helen Veon + Family Terri Rossi-Long Mary Kassis Thursday, August 9 8:00am Rupert Trevino + Lisa Angelo Stan Devereux + Emily Rossi & Family Friday, August 10 8:00am Bob Zielke + Mom Joe Mellish Wife Saturday, August 11 8:00am Lucio Rabe + Rabe Family 5:00pm Tony Costa Ray & Nordine Buckley Joyce, Larry & Tami Sunday, August 12 8:00am Phil Bacchi+ Wife & Family 9:30am Arlene Licursi + Emily Rossi & Family 11:00am Jose Rivera de Leon + The Remeta Famly 6:00pm For Our Parishioners and Their Prayer Requests NO HARSHNESS Fight all error, but do it with good humor, patience, kindness, and love. Harshness will damage your own soul and spoil the best cause. St. John Kanty
Festival News! Saturday, August 18th and Sunday, August 19th The volunteer sign up page is now available on line! Copy this link to sign up for various opportunities at the festival: http://signup.com/go/xzrhzcb Questions? Call Jennifer Davis at (916) 239-5047 Experienced Tamale Makers are needed to help make Tamales for the Mexican Food booth at 10:00am on August 11. Contact Jose Plasencia for information 916-716-6390. The Plant Booth needs your donations! We are looking for plants, pots, flats and potting material. If you can help, please contact Don Agostinelli at (916) 451-1155. The Car Show is looking for cars! Have a classic car you want to show off or know someone who does? Contact Joe Semon at (916) 764-5788. The Italian Chicken Dinner on Saturday, August 18th is taking reservations now! You buy on line at http://bit.ly/stmarychickendinner, or call Denise Franzoia at (916)457-5084. We will not be selling tickets at the dinner this year, presale only - so purchase now so you don't miss out on this fun night of food, music, and fellowship! See you at the Dinner on Saturday, August 18th and Festival on Sunday, August 19th! We are happy to announce that recording artist and musician Jessica Malone will be performing at this year's festival. Come out and hear an incredible rising star! Hall cleanup during the day- looking for a chair and workers! work in the air-conditioned hall ensuring the tables and eating area are kept clean. Ticket sales- very important role! Need a chair to manage volunteers and we need help during the festival at this always busy booth! The lollipop toss booth is in need of a chair! This popular booth is a fun and easy one to run! Are you a crafter, a maker, or a vendor? Do you know someone who is? Spread the word! The Shopping Mall at this year's Parish Festival is looking for vendors. 10x10 booths are available for $50. Contact Melissa Russell at m.jeffers@hotmail.com for more information and to receive an application. Only a 3 weeks until the Festival - Don't forget to get your raffle tickets. 2018 Pricing: same as last year Raffle Tickets are $3 Ticket; 4 Tickets for $10; 20 Tickets for $50 Plus buy 20 tickets for $50 and receive 5 Tickets for the FUN Kids Raffle There are many ways to get your Raffle tickets: Buy Online: You can buy your tickets on line at the Parish Website, under Giving click Donate. (Direct link here: http://bit.ly/stmaryfestival ) We will mark your stubs for you and send you the tickets. Have us mail them to you. We only send tickets in the mail to those that have requested them. Please call 916-452 -0296 ext. 20 to let us know you want your tickets mailed. Pick Them Up After Mass: Look for volunteers in front of the Church after Masses this weekend and next weekend too, they will have Festival Raffle tickets for pick up or sale. Festival Raffle Sneak Peak: Celebrate a family milestone, birthday or just the fact that you are family. Host a big gathering with this fabulous gift from Opa Opa - $500 towards your catering bill! Fabulous food for your gathering, and special thanks to the Courey family for this great donation to our raffle. The Altar Society is planning for its Booth right now. We are changing it's name to - BOOKS, BARGAINS & BOUTIQUE BOOTH. If you would like to donate, we are needing only gently used items because it is not a Garage sale. We will accept some books - Biographies, Histories, Best Selling Novels & Mysteries, Childrens Books, Toys & Games. These are what most buyers are looking for. If you are down-sizing and have some lovely items like vases, linens & china etc., we would love to have them for our Booth. It's a great way to support our parish financially. Drop them off with your name & phone# between 8/5 & 8/17 in the left of the vestibule weekends or in the rectory weekdays. Our Raffle Prize this year will be "Monthly Free Pizza for a Year" from Papa Murphy s( Value $250.) Tickets $1.00. If you have any questions about the festival, please don't hesitate to call Marte Frasca at (916)715-8285 or Joe Frasca at (916)716-0394.
We are gearing up for a new year of Catholic Faith Formation (CFF) for the 2018-2019 school year. Registration is open now. We will have a table at the Festival, 8/19/18 and on Sunday 8/12/2018 after Masses for registration. Registration packets are also available at the parish office. These classes for grades K-8 build upon the basics of our faith and apply to everyday situations through the use of Gospel Weeklies. By discussing the upcoming Gospel on Wednesday, the children are more in tune when they hear it again on Sunday and understand how the words written centuries ago still apply to life today. Our classes are held on Wednesday evenings from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the school. As a reminder, children receiving Sacraments of Reconciliation, Eucharist and Confirmation must attend 2 consecutive years of instruction per Diocesan guidelines. Any questions, please contact Cindy Blecha at cblecha50@gmail.com 8/5/18 Adult/Teens Catechumenate Kids Catechumenate Children s Liturgy of the Word Cub Scout Pack 128 Meeting 8/6/18 Divine Mercy Chaplet Liturgy Committee Meeting Prayer Request Group 8/7/18 Neo Catechumenal Way Pastoral Council Meeting 8/8/18 Centering Prayer Group Choir Practice Stewardship Committee Meeting 8/9/18 Choir Practice Back to School BBQ 8/10/18 Divine Mercy Chaplet Prayer & Life Workshop 8/11/18 Festival Tamale Making Lector Training Confessions Neocatechumenal Way 8/12/18 Adult/Teens Catechumenate Kids Catechumenate Children s Liturgy of the Word CFF Registration after all Masses LECTORS WANTED Our Parish is in need of Lectors for weekend and daily liturgies. Lectors proclaim the word of God and is a wonderful ministry. Lector training is provided that includes a review of the revised Lector Directives, handouts and a "hands-on" reading at the Ambo. Once training is completed, the Lector is commissioned by Fr. James and placed in the reading schedule. Lectoring enriches one's faith and provides a better understanding of the word of God. All Mass readings are available: Daily Mass Monday Saturday, 8am, Saturday, 5pm, Sunday, 8am, 9:30am, 11am and 6pm. If you have a gift of good speaking and a willingness to share that gift please contact the Lector Chair, Dale Walton, at (916) 920-2728. OUR MISSION STATEMENT St. Mary Parish prepares and sustains its members and guests for a life and eternity in the presence of God. In accomplishing our mission, we proclaim and celebrate our salvation through Jesus Christ enlivened by the Holy Spirit, nourish our sacramental life especially in the Sunday celebration of the Eucharist and demonstrate our faith worshiping, educating, serving and encouraging vocations as modeled by Mother Mary.
The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults Do you have questions about the Catholic faith? Are you thinking about becoming Catholic? Are you Catholic but never completed the Sacraments of Initiation (Confirmation and/or Eucharist)? If you or someone you know has questions like these, contact Michelle Mills at 916-806-6876 for more information about the RCIA process. TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION In 1794, a young Irishwoman befriended two widows aboard ship while emigrating to America. They bought a house in Philadelphia and began to live a community life under the direction of a priest. Soon they relocated to Washington. There, the pious ladies, as the neighbors called them, were asked by their priest friend, by then the president of Georgetown University, to begin a religious community. In 1799 they established a branch of the Visitation Order founded by Saint Jane de Chantal and Saint Francis de Sales in the 1620s. The unique vision of this order followed a sensible routine, less arduous and more flexible than most traditions, and also accepted widows and older women. Amazingly, this American outpost of the Visitation began without reference to the rule of the Order. Most of the European convents had been lost under the reign of terror, and the rules and customs of the community could not be obtained. A copy of the rule was discovered in 1812, and in 1816 the pope officially established the monastery. By then, some French nuns had regrouped, and they sent a habit and cross to be copied. (No religious wore the habit in public in the United States until after the Civil War.) From the beginning, the Georgetown nuns had an educational mission, even though they discovered in the rule that such work was officially REIGNITE: Youth & Young Adult Ministry Leader Renewal Calling all Youth and Young Adult Ministry leaders! You are invited to REIGNITE your faith, passion, and service to God's people as you attend one of two FREE Fall convocations and renewals. There will be a keynote, breakouts, networking, fellowship, prayer, a special blessing, and food. Breakout tracks include New Youth Ministers, Veteran Youth Ministers, and Young Adult Ministry Leaders. Please join us on either Friday, August 17 from 6:30-9:30pm at the Newman Catholic Center in Davis, or on August 18 from 10am-1pm at the Pastoral Center in Sacramento. Register no later than August 10, 2018 at: catholic.formstack.com/forms/reignite. Questions? Contact Rochelle Gammad at (916)733-0123 or rgammad@scd.org.
SPECIAL COLLECTION NEXT WEEKEND Next week, we will take up the Collection for the Church in Latin America. For many in Latin America and Caribbean, rural terrain and a lack of ministers are obstacles to practicing their faith. Your support to the collection provides lay leadership training, catechesis, priestly and religious formation, as well as other programs to help share our faith with those who long to hear the Good News of Christ. To learn more, www.usccb.org/ latin-america. THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!! Thank you so much to our new parishioner Ed Dagang for volunteering in the parish office last week. Your help is truly and greatly appreciated!! GOD S WORK We are so busy! Most of us have more than one job to do, and we never seem to have enough time. We are workers, volunteers, parents, friends, and most of us are more than one thing at a time. But which of these is the work of God? We seldom view our ordinary work as being the work of God. We may think that we have to be ministers or priests, missionaries or charity workers, engaged full-time in works formally identified as being God s work. But everything we do with a faithful heart and with love for others is God s work. We each have our own role to fill in the world, and many gifts are necessary. We cannot always see the direct connection of our daily work to the plan of God. But we trust and we believe that God leads us to do what is needed, where it is needed. What is God s work? This is the work of God, that you believe in the one he sent (John 6:29). Copyright J. S. Paluch Co., Inc. Open Enrollment has begun: New students entering grades TK to 8, can now enroll for the 2018-2019 school year. If you know someone interested in enrolling, please let them know to contact us! Campus tours are available. Go to the school website www.saintmaryschool.com or please contact our principal, Ms. Allen at (916) 452-1100 or lallen@saintmaryschool.com. Preschool at St. Mary s 2018: All potty trained three and four-year-old children may attend our year -round preschool program. Please continue your support and help us promote this important faithbased preschool program. Fore the Kids Golf Tournament is scheduled for Saturday, September 22 nd. Make plans to join us at Haggin Oaks Golf Center in the fall for a great time. It s all for the kids! Sign up today with SCRIP and escrip, and Amazon Smile Shop with SCRIP: Place orders online, anytime day or night! Log on to www.shopwithscrip.com and use Group Number 762L7E5D1L336 to register. escrip: Log on to www.escrip.com and sign-up! Designate St. Mary School to receive contributions. The escrip program is a fundraising program that allows participating merchants to contribute a percentage of your grocery loyalty cards, credit card, and debit/atm card purchases to the school or organization of your choice. Use Code Number 140362864 to register your debit/credit cards and your SAFEWAY club card. AmazonSmile: On your first visit to AmazonSmile, click the Get Started button, select St. Mary School. Every eligible purchase you make will result in a donation to the school. It s that easy! Check out our website at www.saintmaryschool.com.
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