HOLY NAME OF JESUS PARISH San Francisco, CA www.holyname-sf.org THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME January 22, 2012
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time January 22, 2012 The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel. Mark 1:15 TODAY S READINGS First Reading The people of Nineveh believed God and turned from their evil ways (Jonah 3:1-5, 10). Psalm Teach me your ways, O Lord (Psalm 25). Second Reading The world in its present form is passing away (1 Corinthians 7:29-31). Gospel This is the time of fulfillment. The kingdom of God is at hand (Mark 1:14-20). The English translation of the Psalm Responses from the Lectionary for Mass 1969, 1981, 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved. READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: 2 Sm 5:1-7, 10; Mk 3:22-30, or any readings from the Mass For Peace and Jus tice, nos. 887-891 Tuesday: 2 Sm 6:12b-15, 17-19; Mk 3:31-35 Wednesday: Acts 22:3-16 or Acts 9:1-22; Mk 16:15-18 Thursday: 2 Tm 1:1-8 or Ti 1:1-5; Mk 4:21-25 Friday: 2 Sm 11:1-4a, 5-10a, 13-17; Mk 4:26-34 Saturday: 2 Sm 12:1-7a, 10-17; Mk 4:35-41 Sunday: Dt 18:15-20; Ps 95; 1 Cor 7:32-35; Mk 1:21-28 SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Sunday: Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Monday: Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children; St. Vincent; Chinese New Year 4710 Tuesday: St. Francis de Sales Wednesday: The Conversion of St. Paul the Apostle Thursday: Ss. Timothy and Titus Friday: St. Angela Merici Saturday: St. Thomas Aquinas MASS INTENTIONS WEEK of January 22, 2012 Sun 22 7:30 AM Mass for the People 9:30 AM John J. McEllistrim 11:30 AM Bernadette Neeley Mon 23 7:30 AM Jesus Chavez 9:00 AM Brendan Logan Tue 24 7:30 AM Shea, Breen & Scully Families 9:00 AM John McEllistrim Wed 25 7:30 AM Castor Nacario 9:00 AM Bernadette Neeley Thu 26 7:30 AM Roger Pendenza Family 9:00 AM Glenn Cheetham Fri 27 7:30 AM Jose del Rosario 9:00 AM John McEllistrim Sat 28 7:30 AM Charles Kreps 9:00 AM Donald Van Tricht 5:00 PM Brendan Logan We pray for the Sick...that they may experience God s Love and Healing. Lorenzo Aguirre, Dalmacio Briones Jr., Deogracias Cusi, Evangeline Agbunag, Gene Relampagos, Mani Glanz, Janice Di Martini, Mary Medina, Clara Lee, Amy McNally, Peggy McCarthy, Jorge Buccat, Arturo Martin, Alexis Rivera, Aurora Urmeneta, Alice Fiumara, Philip Nordstrom, Inge Nordstrom, Rosa Maria Alonso, Marilou L. Dullano, Laura Andrade, Viola Mahoney, Christopher Weinman, Poy Wong, Leny Lopez, Mee Yee, Arturo Palarca, Johanna Bualat, Juan Aguirre, Frank Lynch, Arlene V. Rivera, Kevin Lu, Dory Constantino, Daniel E. DaLuz We pray for those who have Died that they may be granted a home in heaven. 2011 ARCHBISHOP S ANNUAL APPEAL DONORS A big thank you to: Ms. Louise Chien, Ms. Mary Ellen Downey, Mr. John Grogan, Mrs. Louise Hsu Lee, Mr. & Mrs. Jose Jacinto and Mrs. Mary Ann White for their donations to the 2011 Archbishop s Annual Appeal. Weekly Offering 1/15/12 1/16/11 CASH 1,128.25 1,190.68 CHECKS 3,353.00 3,847.50 Total Collection 4,481.25 5,038.18 # of Envelopes 194 213 PENNY DRIVE 2011 We are still collecting for our penny drive... Pennies, Silver Change, Dollars & Checks welcome! We have collected $ 3,344.89 towards our goal. Proceeds of this fundraiser will be used to pay for a candle stand for the Chapel You may drop off your donations in the glass containers at the back of the Church or at the Pastoral Center office. What I am is God s gift to me. What I become is my gift back to God. Anonymous
BAKE SALE The Religious Education teachers together with the youth group will sponsor a Bake sale to raise money to go to the Religious Ed. Congress - March 2012 Please support this activity and help our Religious Education Teachers and the Youth Leader to be able to attend the Congress. MOVIE NIGHT featuring The Blue and the Gray Starring Ray Baldridge, June Casey, Helen Kirk and Steve Nevil Thursday, January 26, 2012 7:00 PM Flanagan Center HOLY NAME YOUTH GROUP The Youth Group meets every 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month after the 11:30 AM Mass. The youth group includes, but is not limited to, teens from ages 13 to 18 years old. Young adults are invited as well. HOLY NAME CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC REGISTRATIONS ARE STILL BEING ACCEPTED FOR THE SPRING 2012 SEMESTER For more information about the Conservatory program or to register for private lessons in voice, violin, guitar or piano, please e-mail Jackie @ hnparishsecretary@yahoo.com or call (415) 664-8590 or visit our website: www.holyname-sf.org and click on CONSERVATORY HOLY NAME TREE OF LIFE The Holy Name Tree of Life, a bronze tree trunk with approximately 400 leaves is located at the back of the Church. Donors can have their names, or those they wish to honor, engraved on the leaf. The proceeds of the donations to the Tree of Life will go towards a much-needed Capital Improvement Fund. Each leaf costs $500 with a $25.00 engraving charge. We suggest setting a MAXIMUM number of characters per leaf to 5 lines, 25 characters per line including spaces. Leaf color choices are Gold, Silver or Bronze. Please send engraving request with check payment (payable to Holy Name Parish) or drop by the church office, 1555 39th Ave. San Francisco, CA 94122. For more information, please call (415) 664-8590. Join us for a CATHOLIC GATHERING ON IMMIGRATION Saturday, January 28, 2012 at St. Mary s Cathedral from 2-4pm. For more information, please call Veronica Ramirez at 415-614-5570. ST. VINCENT DE PAUL 5 TH SUNDAY COLLECTION NEXT WEEK JANUARY 29, 2012 We hope everyone had a joyous Christmas and will also enjoy a healthy new year. The funds from these 5th Sunday collections are used to help those in need. Assistance is given to persons who come to the Pastoral Center for food, shelter or travel needs. We also provide financial help to SVDP programs and other conferences dealing directly with persons in need. Thank you again for your past support. Please use your SVDP envelope in next weekend collection. SAINT PATRICK S SEMINARY & UNIVERSITY COLLECTION January 21/22, 2012 Tuition, room and board pay for approximately half the cost of educating a seminarian. To sustain our vitally important work of priestly formation, we rely on the generosity of our benefactors and of the parishioners whom our seminarians will one day serve as priests. Your donation will help fund our core program of academic, spiritual, human, and pastoral formation of priests and to provide language resources that will prepare our seminarians to communicate and minister effectively within an increasingly culturally diverse Church. St. Patrick s carries out its mission according to the Church s magisterial teaching, under the direction of the Archbishop of San Francisco, in accordance with the U.S. Bishop s Program of priestly Formation and in the values of the Sulpician tradition. For more information about the Seminary, please visit our website, www.stpatrickseminary.org Thank you for your generous support. The Archdiocese of San Francisco Invites you to our Celebration of the 21st WORLD DAY OF THE SICK MASS A Special Invitation to the Sick and their Caregivers Location: Cathedral of St. Mary the Assumption, 1111 Gough Street at Geary, San Francisco, CA Principal Celebrant: Archbishop George Niederauer Date: Saturday, February 11, 2012 Time: Noon Hosted by: Order of Malta Western Association, USA Catholic Networking Night St. Dominic s, 2390 Bush Street (SF) in the modular classroom. Admission is free; reservations are requested, conniedaura@gmail.com. TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS Immaculate Conception Church 3255 Folsom St. (cross St. is Cesar Chavez St.) Every Sunday at 5:30 PM
Holy Name Parish Chinese New Year Celebration The Year of the Dragon Saturday, January 28, 2012 6:00 PM The Chinese parishioners of Holy Name extend this invitation to All families & friends of the Parish & the Parish School Potluck dinner, Ryan Hall (School Gym) Performance by Chinese Class students Raffles & Door prizes for Children under 16: Lucky red packets from Fr. Zamora & Lollipops from Mrs. Cosmos Please note: Reservations are a must due to space limitations. ** Tickets will be held at the door. ** To make sure we have a variety of food at the dinner, we request the school parents to bring different dishes. If you are not a school parent, you are welcome to bring whatever dish you like. Just check the return slip below. Thank you. Kindergarten: Chicken 1st & 2nd Grade Pork 3rd & 4th Grade: Beef 5th & 6th Grade: Vegetable 7th & 8th Grade: Dessert Please bring enough for your family and SIX others. $5/person age 5 and above. Total enclosed: $ (Check to HN Chinese Ministry) Name: Phone: Kindly return your reservations to Holy Name School (1560 40th Ave./Lawton St.) FAZtor s Notes By Fr. Arnold Zamora The first Sunday of Advent is the New Year of the Church. January 1 st is the Calendar New Year. This Monday, January 23 rd is Chinese New Year, The Year of the Dragon. Another year indeed! Each year, for most of us, we see our doctor for our annual check-up. This year consider going to a different and special clinic. I went to the Lord s Clinic to have my routine check-up and He confirmed that I was ill. When Jesus took my blood pressure, He saw I was low in tenderness. When He read my temperature, the thermometer registered 40 of anxiety. He ran an electrocardiogram and found that I needed several love bypasses since my arteries were blocked with loneliness and could not provide for an empty heart. I went to orthopedics, because I could not walk by my brother s side and I could not hug my friends, since I had fractured my bones when tripping with envy. He also found that I was short sighted, since I could not see beyond the shortcomings of my brothers and sisters. When I complained about deafness, the diagnosis was that I had stopped listening to Jesus voice talking to me on a daily basis. For all of that, Jesus gave me a free consultation thanks to His mercifulness, so my pledge is to, once I leave this clinic, only take the natural remedies He prescribed though His words of truth: Every morning, take a full glass of gratitude. When getting to work, take one spoon of peace. Every hour, take one pill of patience, one cup of brotherhood and one glass of humility. When getting home, take one dose of love. When getting to bed, take two capsules of clear conscience. Do not give in into sadness or desperation for what you are going through today. God knows how you feel God knows exactly and with perfection what is being allowed to happen to you in your life at this precise moment. God s purpose for you is simply perfect. He wants to show you things that you can only understand by living what you are living, and by being in the place you are now. May God give you For every storm, a rainbow, For every tear, a smile, For every care, a promise And a blessing in each trial. For every problem life sends, A faithful friend to share, And for every sigh, a sweet song, And an answer for each prayer.
THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME THE RAW MATERIAL Someone has suggested that if Jesus were to send his twelve disciples for psychological testing today he might receive this reply: Thank you for submitting the résumés of the twelve men you have picked for managerial positions in your new organization. All of them have taken our complete battery of tests. In addition, we arranged personality interviews for each of your candidates with our psychologists and vocational aptitude consultants. It is the opinion of our staff that most of your nominees are lacking in the background, education, and skills necessary for the success of your enterprise. None of them shows an understanding of the team concept. Simon Peter is impulsive and would benefit from angermanagement counseling. Andrew has no measureable leadership qualities. The two brothers, James and John, place personal ambition above company loyalty. Thomas shows a skeptical attitude that would tend to undermine morale. In his previous business, Matthew was blacklisted by the Jerusalem Better Business Bureau. James, the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddeus definitely have radical political leanings, and appear to have unstable temperaments. One of the candidates, however, shows real potential. He is a man of ability and resourcefulness, possesses excellent social skills, and has contacts in high places. He is highly motivated, ambitious, and responsible. We recommend Judas Iscariot as your comptroller and right-hand man. Today Jesus calls us. Like Peter, we lack faith. Like Andrew, we have much to learn. Like James and John, we are selfish. Like Matthew, we have a past. Like Thomas, we sometimes doubt. If Jesus could use them, he can certainly use us. With God s help, we too can grow from strength to strength and accomplish great things for God and the Kingdom. The call to follow Jesus is urgent. Answer now. Copyright 2011, World Library Publications. All rights reserved. Living Stewardship Now God does not demand moral perfection before you can be of worthy service. God asks for a loving heart and a willingness to stick with your commitment. Copyright 2011, World Library Publications. All rights reserved. HOLY NAME SCHOOL Dear Holy Name Families, Thank you for supporting our fundraising efforts, Team Natasha, to benefit The Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation at UCSF. On Monday, January 15, Patxi s Pizza Restaurant was busy from morning until night serving Holy Name families, taking phone orders and preparing gift cards. It was wonderful to have families come together in this community effort to support the incredible work that UCSF does for children with brain tumors. Natasha Holmes was seen at Patxi s with a big smile on her face. Thank you so much. Mr. Tom Galvin received a letter from St. Anthony Foundation s Free Clothing Program expressing their gratitude for our generous donation of 1,200 items of clothing. You helped to carry their message of never-ending hope to the people of San Francisco. Thank you, Mr. Galvin and 6Bstudents for your work in sorting the clothing and all of you who helped to make this a successful drive. Mr. Dennis Dea and Ms. Anna Rivieccio received a letter of appreciation from the San Francisco Fire Fighters Toy Program for the bags of gifts brought to the fire station by our Student Council members and for the generous check presented to the firemen that day. Christmas day was a happy one for over 40,000 children. Thank you to Mr. Dea, Ms. Rivieccio, our Student Council members, parents and students of Holy Name School who added to the Christmas spirit of giving. Sincerely, Mrs. Judy Cosmos, Principal HOLY NAME PRESCHOOL Holy Name preschool is now accepting applications! The preschool is open to children ages 2 1/2 to 6 years old. Please contact Alice Seher, the Director at (415) 664-4753 or go online www.holynamesf.com and click "Preschool".
Holy Name Parish Business Office: est. 1925 1555 39th Ave. San Francisco, CA 94122 Phone: (415) 664-8590 Fax: (415) 759-4293 www.holyname-sf.org HOLY NAME SCHOOL: (415) 731-4077 Website: www.holynamesf.com Judy Cosmos, Principal 1560 40th Ave. San Francisco, CA 94122 HOLY NAME PRESCHOOL: (415) 664-4753 Alice Ho Seher, Preschool Director Website: www.holynamesf.com & click on Preschool Holy Name CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC Private lessons are offered in piano, voice, guitar and violin. To register or more information please contact Jackie at (415) 664-8590. RECTORY: 3240 Lawton St. San Francisco, CA 94122 (415) 759-4294 FLANAGAN CENTER: (415) 564-2632 PARISH NURSE PROGRAM: Carol, R.N. (415) 664-8590 ext. 109 CANOSSIAN SISTERS: (415) 753-6685 1858 38th Ave. San Francisco, CA 94122 PARISH STAFF: Rev. Arnold E. Zamora, Pastor Rev. Nicasio Paloso, Parochial Vicar Most Rev. Ignatius C. Wang, JCD Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus/In Residence Sr. Stella Negri, FdCC, Pastoral Associate Sr. Herminia Cosico, FdCC, Pastoral Outreach Minister Sr. Esther Ling, FdCC, Spiritual Director Chinese Ministry/D.R.E., Holy Name School Jackie C. Alcaraz, Parish Manager Director/Holy Name Conservatory of Music Colleen A. Durkin, Parish Secretary Holy Name School Alumni Coordinator Tony Eiras, Music Director Carol Elliott, RN, Parish Nurse Joe Nicolas, Webmaster Ron Alcaraz, Gym Director Rodil Hidalgo, Boys Athletic Director Vince de Lucca, Girls Athletic Director Patrick Cody, Parish Pastoral Council Chairperson Jim Regan, Parish Finance Council Chairperson Pls. contact the Parish office if you would like to contact members of the Pastoral or Finance Councils. SCHEDULE OF MASSES Sunday: 7:30 AM, 9:30 AM (Family Mass), 11:30 AM, 3:15 PM (Vietnamese) Saturday 7:30 AM, 9:00 AM, 3:00 PM (Chinese), 5:00 PM (Vigil) Weekdays 7:30 AM, 9:00 AM Holy Days 7:30 AM, 9:00AM, and 7:30 PM Confessions: 15 minutes before 9:30 and 11:30 AM Masses on Sunday & 4:30-5:00 PM Saturday or by appointment Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Every Wednesday 9:30 AM 7:30 PM Sacred Heart of Jesus Devotions: Friday after 9:00 AM Mass Perpetual Help Devotions: Saturday after 9:00 AM Mass First Saturday Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary begins at 8:30 AM with the Rosary, then Mass & Benediction Baptisms by appointment Baptismal Preparation Fourth Thursday of the month in the Pastoral Center - 7:30 PM Marriages Contact Pastoral Center 6 months in advance. Religious Education (for Children) Kindergarten to 9th, Saturday 10 AM 12 Noon RCIA for youth Monday 5:00 PM-6:30 PM Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (R.C.I.A.) Wednesdays, 7:30-9:00 PM in the Pastoral Center R.C.I.A. (Chinese) Every Saturday Pastoral Center 10:00 AM Religious Education (for Adults) : Please call Sr. Stella 664-8590 Bible Class every Tuesday@10-11 AM (Flanagan Center) Bible Study Group (Chinese) Every Wednesday 7:30 PM Flanagan Center Parish Pastoral Council: contact Fr. Arnold Zamora St. Vincent de Paul Society meeting every Monday at 7:30 PM (Pastoral Center) Legion of Mary: Contact Rose Symkowick (415) 731-4652 Blood Pressure Screening: every 2nd Wednesday from after the 7:30 AM Mass until Noon (Pastoral Center) except JULY & AUGUST Holy Name Ladies Aid: every 1st Wednesday of the Month at 11:45 AM (Flanagan Center) Senior Club: every Thursday at 11:00 AM (Flanagan Ctr.) Monday Night Yoga: every Monday at 6:15 PM (Assembly Room); Please contact Jackie at (415) 664-8590 FIL-AM Club: Every 3rd Friday of the month, 6:45 pm (except Oct. and Nov. at 7:30 pm) at the Flanagan Center. HOLY NAME Choir Practice: every Tuesday at 7:30 PM Welcome New Parishioners! Please complete and return form to the Pastoral Center (1555 39th Ave.), or simply drop it in the collection basket. Kindly print all information. Name(s) Address City & Zip Phone E-mail: