Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time July 8, 2012 Is he not the carpenter, the son of Mary? Mark 6:3 St. Veronica Church Established 1951 434 Alida Way, South San Francisco, CA 94080 Fax: 650-588-1481 www.stveronicassf.com Phone: 650-588-1455
Parish Office Hours Monday to Friday 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Lunch Noon - 1:00 p.m. Phone: 650-588-1455 Fax: 650-588-1481 Parish Staff Fr. Charles Puthota, Ph.D., Pastor Fr. Linh Nguyen, Parochial Vicar Deacon Roger Beaudry Deacon Joseph LeBlanc Sandy Kearney, Parish Manager Ext. 304 Stephanie de Prume, Finance Manager Ext. 306 Patricia Spiteri, Parish Secretary Karen Guglielmoni, Faith Formation & Wedding Coordinator Ext.305 Christopher Lindstrom, Music Director 650-588-1455 Ext. 308 St. Veronica Parish St. Veronica Catholic School www.saintveronicassf.org Phone: 650-589-3909 Mass Intentions WEEK of July 8, 2012 Sun 07/08 6:45 Lucila Buidon 8:00 Rosario & Catalina Fabiano 9:30 Elba Madariaga 11:00 Ramon Fernandez, Sr. 12:30 People of St. Veronica 6:00 Haydee Hernandez Mon 07/09 6:30 Nelita Abraham 8:30 Francisco L. Grajo Tue 07/10 6:30 Felix Abraham 8:30 Patrick Kerrigan Wed 07/11 6:30 Dorothy Rosado 8:30 Alfredo Berriatua Thu 07/12 6:30 Lourdes P. Manlapaz 8:30 Michael Mihalek Fri 07/13 6:30 Josephina Pablo 8:30 Vida Kern Sat Sun 07/14 8:30 Arthur Tiangco 5:00 Mercedes Melvin 07/15 6:45 Gervacio Panaquiton 8:00 Luis & Carolina Fabiano 9:30 Perpetua Marzan 11:00 Thomas Sheridan 12:30 People of St. Veronica Kathryn Lucchesi Principal Pam Cavagnaro Vice Principal SACRAMENTAL PREPARATION Sacrament of Baptism Baptismal Preparation classes are held once a month. Call the Parish Office 650-588-1455 Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA) Call the Parish Office to register 650-588-1455 Ext.309 Faith Formation: 650-588-1455 Ext. 305 Catechetical instructions (1st to 8th grades) Confirmation Classes: 650-588-1455 ONLY A CARPENTER Jesus was a small-town boy. Everyone in Nazareth knew him and his whole family, even all the cousins. He was the carpenter, Mary s boy, so when he spoke and taught with authority in the synagogue they took offense at him. How dare he? In Jesus world, you could work harder and become better off, but once a carpenter always a carpenter. Jesus did not press them, just as we cannot force belief on other people. For people with friends and family who have drifted away from the Church, it is tempting to pressure them to come back. Sadly, this may increase the distance and cause arguments. However some people are just waiting to be asked. True stories abound of men or women who attend Mass for years with their Catholic family, even giving generously to the parish, yet never take that final step into the community until someone - and it could be you - asks, Would you like to join the Church? - World Library Publications Parish Office email: churchoffice@stveronicassf.com
Mass Schedule Saturdays: 8:30AM & 5:00PM Sundays: 6:45, 8:00, 9:30, 11:00AM, and 12:30PM Holy Days: 6:30, 8:30AM, & 6:30PM Monday Friday: 6:30 & 8:30AM Spanish Mass First Sunday of each month at 6:00 PM. Misa en Español: Primer Domingo de cada mes a las 6:00 p.m. Confessions Saturdays: 4:00 5:00PM Liturgy of the Hours Monday Friday: Morning Prayer at 6:00AM Eucharistic Adoration Monday Friday: 9:00AM 9:00PM Parish Registration Please complete and return form to the parish office, or simply drop it in the collection basket. Kindly print all information Name(s) Name(s) Address City & Zip Phone E-mail: Updating Current Parish Registration Moving / Please remove from mailing list. This is a new registration Please call me. Please remember the sick and the care-givers in our community. Pray that they may find comfort and healing in Christ. Please contact the Parish office if Homebound Eucharistic services are needed. Welcome Newly Registered Parishioners! Our parish continues to be blessed and enriched by the presence of new parishioners: Myra Aninion; John, Maegan & Joseph Gomez Brenda Leus May St. Veronica Church offer you a place where you can bring your sorrow and joys, your pain and triumphs and peace for your soul. We welcome you with open arms and hearts! Thank you... for your generous support of the essential work of the Holy Father and his charitable acts through the Peter s Pence Collection. Our contributions will be combined with those of our brothers and sisters around the world to help Pope Benedict reach out to those in need. Your generosity will help to cast Christ s peace upon the world. Please remember there will be NO Bingo during the month of July 2012 Living Stewardship Now Part of good stewardship is to be welcoming, inviting, and hospitable, with no strings attached. Speak to people before and after Mass. Volunteer as a greeter, or with a ministry serving returning Catholics. Be a sponsor for someone in RCIA. Welcome newcomers into your neighborhood. - World Library Publications Due to the Independence Day holiday printing schedule, the collection totals for June 30 and July 1 will be reported in a future bulletin. Thank you for supporting St. Veronica Parish and its works.
From the Pastor s Desk Dear St. Veronica Parishioners, WHAT IS CATHOLICISM? What does it mean to be Catholic? We wonder about our identity as Catholics. Many of us are born Catholic. We were baptized as babies. I was only eight days old when I was baptized in my over 200-year-old parish church. Some of us embraced our faith through deliberate choice at a later stage. Year after year at the Easter Vigil we are delighted and inspired by those who choose to become Catholic after going through the RCIA program. We teach the faith to our school children and in the Faith Formation programs. I meet men in their eighties sometimes who boast about being altar servers while growing up; it is as if that was an important part of their identity. During funerals, one of the compliments the family would often pay to the memory of the deceased is that the dear departed cherished the practice of Catholic faith. The central practice of Catholicism is to be gathered at the Eucharistic celebration week after week, remembering Jesus, hearing God s word, singing hymns, partaking of the Body of Christ, and being sent away to help, heal, and transform the world. This ritual has been going on for over 2000 years. In the first and second centuries, the Romans, Greeks and other nearby nations thought that Christians were crazy in coming together to break the bread in the name of someone who had been crucified. And yet, this tradition of coming together to take the bread, bless it, break it, and give it came to be the foundation on which Christianity found its identity and strength. Besides the Eucharist, we celebrate other sacraments which are intimately related to our life journey of birth, growth, maturity, intimacy, disease, diminishment, and death. Further we observe various devotions and pious practices. We take pride in the Creed, our dogmas, and doctrines. Being immersed in these religious beliefs, rituals and practices, we might lose sight of the larger picture of who we are as Catholics. Just what is Catholicism? Father Richard McBrien in his famous book Catholicism, answers this question in a scholarly and yet simple manner. He gives six points. 1. Catholicism is a Christian tradition, a way of life, and a community. 2. The Word Catholic, derived from Greek, means universal. Its opposite is sectarian rather than Protestant. 3. Many non-catholic Christians insist on the use of the adjective Roman to describe the Church that is in union with Rome, because they also regard themselves as Catholic. But there are Eastern-rite churches that are in union with Rome, and yet are not of the Roman, or Latin, rite. Therefore, the adjective Roman would pertain only to a portion of the Church that is in union with Rome, albeit the largest portion by far. 4. Catholicism is, first of all, a way of being human, then a way of being religious, and then a way of being Christian. Catholicism can only be understood within this wider context. 5. Catholicism is characterized by three principles: sacramentality, mediation, and communion. The special configuration of these three principles within Catholicism constitutes its distinctiveness. It is a tradition that sees God in all things (sacramentality), using the human, the material, and the finite (mediation), to bring about the unity of humankind (communion). 6. Other distinctively Catholic principles include its emphasis on tradition, its regard for reason, its analogical imagination, and its universality, including a both/and rather than an either/or approach to Christian faith and practice. The ultimate goal of Catholicism is to build up the human family and gather it all for the glory of God and the triumph of human destiny. This is what we call the Kingdom of God. Catholicism aspires profoundly for unity and union: that Jesus prayer that all may be one may become a reality. All nations, all peoples, all cultures, all religions will be gathered and united by God. Let s ponder the grand vision of Catholicism, share in it, and pride in it by making that vision part of our daily existence. In Finnegan s Wake, the Irish author James Joyce says: Catholic means Here comes everybody! It means that Catholic faith includes everyone. No one is excluded. All are welcome! No one is a stranger! A pastor asked a man if there was a reason why he was not present at the Church services. He replied that there were too many hypocrites in the church. The pastor said to him: Let that not keep you away. There is always room for one more. If you find the perfect church, don t join it because it will no longer be perfect. My principle is simply this: You can criticize the church all you want, but first you must love it. It s the same way you earn the right to criticize your own children or family because you first love them. The church is not a perfect place. It s both sacred and secular; it s both divine and human. As Christ s bride, it s perfect, but with us as members, it constantly struggles with sin and selfishness. We are both graced and sinful. Before we assume the authority to criticize the Church, do we love it? If we do, then even the criticism may become an expression of our love for the Church. Your Friend and Pastor, Father Charles Puthota By Dream-Wallpaper.com
It is with great joy that we welcome into our church and community the following children who received the Sacrament of Baptism at our Church Saturday, June 16, 2012 Julian Franklin G. Argao Kayla Marie Mack Sophiarae Renee Miron Jayse Robert Morini Top of the Class! We would like to acknowledge the following young men who earned Top of the Class honors at Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo. All graduates of our St. Veronica Catholic School and parishioners at St. Veronica Parish, each of these young men earned all A s during the 2012 Spring semester. Daniel Shea, Class of 2012 Austin Garcia, Class of 2013 Louis Langi, Class of 2013 Nicholas Dino, Class of 2014 Ryan Cruz, Class of 2015 Congratulations and keep up the good work! Traveling this Summer? Find A Catholic Church anywhere in the World visit the website www.masstimes.org Mass Times is a non-profit web site that allows traveling Catholics to locate Mass times and information for Catholic Churches around the world. Southern California Mission Trip A group is planning a 4-day, 3-night guided tour to the nine Southern California missions from August 28-31. The trip package includes all transportation, all meals, lodging, admission fees to the missions, service charges, gratuities and taxes. For additional information, please call June Heise at 650-871-7738. Baptism Information Registration forms are available from the Pastoral Center during regular office hours, or you may download a form from our website at www.stveronicassf.com Baptisms are celebrated on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month at 11:00 a.m. unless otherwise noted: July 21 (full) October 6, 20 August 4, 18 November 3, 17 September 1, 15 December 1, 15 Preparation classes for parents & godparents are held monthly on Tuesdays as noted below. Classes are conducted in the Pastoral Center from 7:30-9:00 p.m. (Adults only please). Please call the Parish Office at 650-588-1455 to reserve your space for the Baptismal Prep Classes. July 10 October 9 August 14 November 13 September 11 December 11 Planning Your Wedding at St. Veronica Church? The policy of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco states that arrangements for marriage are to be made at least six months in advance. These months are meant to give couples the opportunity for prayerful reflection on Christian marriage and for consideration of their future life as "two who will be made one." Your first step is to call our rectory office at 650-588-1455 and schedule an appointment to meet with a member of the clergy. During the initial meeting, preliminary information will be taken and an evaluation of your readiness to marry will be assessed. Other information will be provided regarding the Marriage Preparation Program and FOCUS questionnaire. You will also have the opportunity to set up future meetings with clergy, our wedding coordinator, and music director who will all work with you in preparing your special day. Calendars fill up quickly and schedules get busy, so don't delay in setting up your initial wedding appointment.
Solution to last week s puzzle Reflecting on the Gospel for Families Our hearts go out to Jesus in this gospel because we feel his pain when his own family and friends reject him. The news of Jesus miracles and healings had by now spread throughout the region and when he returned to Nazareth to teach in the synagogue, the people there were unbelieving. How, they wondered, could someone as common as a laborer have such authority from God? Sadly, Jesus could not do the wondrous work of God in his own home town. There are not further times recorded in the gospels that Jesus entered another synagogue after the rejection he experienced in Nazareth. How many times do we shy away from saying what we know to be the truth? We may see a co-worker, a relative, or friend making some poor decisions. Or we may witness injustices in our society. It s easier to turn our heads in the other direction and not get involved. After all, our lives are going fairly well and someone else s mistakes or misfortunes don t really affect us. But don t they? We are answerable first to God, but we also need to keep in mind that our children are watching (and will eventually imitate) our every move. As difficult as it is, it is our responsibility to show them how to be strong and courageous even when our words and actions might be unpopular. - from www.faithfirstlectionary.com SAVE THE DATE Faith Formation News Registration for 2012-13: Registration is now open for the 2012-13 Faith Formation program for grades 1-8, Confirmation, and the Special Needs sacramental preparation classes. All forms are available on the parish web site, www.stveronicassf.com, under the Faith Formation link. Just a reminder that there are two years of preparation for the sacraments of First Communion and Confirmation. Any questions, please call the Faith Formation Coordinator, Karen Guglielmoni, at 650-588- 1455 ext. 305. Do you hear the call to be a catechist? Each year, the Faith Formation program invites those who would like to educate children of our parish in the Catholic faith to contact the Faith Formation Office. Before the next school year starts, there will be a series of summer workshops, a mini-retreat, and other training opportunities available for new and returning catechists. Teamteaching and teaching assistant opportunities are also available. Questions about your vocation? Feel free to call Karen Guglielmoni, the Faith Formation Coordinator, at 650-588-1455 ext. 305. St. Veronica Annual Parish Festival September 28, 29 & 30, 2012 Detailed information will be in future bulletins. The Responsibility of Discipleship Sometimes people are not going to like you and that is OK. Your job is not to make everyone like you. Your job is to use all your gifts and talents to be the person God created you to be. Your job is also to live as one of God s loving people. God told Ezekiel that even if the people did not like his message from God, after hearing Ezekiel they would know there had been a prophet with them. When Jesus tried to teach in his hometown, no one would listen. He had to leave and go to other towns. When Paul preached some people did not like what he said and made trouble for him. The same is true for us. We cannot expect that if we live as God s people, everyone will like us all the time. There is nothing to do about it but know it is true and suck it up when we have to. You can t just sit there. God has something for each of us to do. God had a message for Ezekiel to tell the people. Jesus sent the disciples out to tell other people what they had seen Jesus do and say. Paul spent his whole life starting new churches. Each of us needs to keep our eyes open for what God needs for us to do. - from www.worshiping with children.blogspot.com