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Bulletin 01-15-17
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Seniors Gathering 01-20-17
Attention all seniors : Our next potluck gathering will be held on Friday, January 20th at noon in the St. Joachim Hall. We will be planning the 2017 activities. Please R.S.V.P. to Selena (510) 517-3039. All seniors are welcome.
Altar Servers Meeting 01-14-17
-All altar servers and parents we will be having our next altar server meeting on Saturday, January 14th. -Please join us by attending 8:30am mass. -Meeting will follow. -Please bring something small to share with our ministry. Agenda: Recap of November & December...
Vatican Corner 01-08-17
VATICAN CORNER In 1508 Pope Julius II invited the Italian painter Raphael, a student of Leonardo da Vinci, to Rome and commissioned him to paint religious frescos in the Vatican Palace. He found several artists already at work on different rooms, many painting over...
Pastors Desk 01-08-17
It was a hot day in July 1969 on board an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. Sailors with binoculars were searching the sky above the carrier. Suddenly they let out a yell. There, orange and white parachutes exploded and bloomed in the blue sky. Dangling from them was a...
Bulletin 01-08-17
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Vatican Corner 01-01-17
VATICAN CORNER A calendar is like a chain that emerges out of the waters of oblivion and holds the ship of history to its moorings. Beneath the surface of the waters, there must have been sunk some kind of an anchor. -- P.W. Wilson. There are six principal calendars...
Pastors Desk 01-01-17
A boy asked his father, "Dad, if three frogs were sitting on a limb that hangs over a pool, and one frog decided to jump off into the pool, how many frogs would be left on the limb?" The dad replied, "Two." "No," the son replied. “Here is the question again: There are...
Bulletin 01-01-17
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Pastors Desk 12-25-16
It was the day after Christmas at a church in San Francisco. The pastor of the church was looking at the manger scene, when he noticed that the baby Jesus figure was missing from the cradle. He immediately turned and went outside and saw a little boy with a red wagon...
Vatican Corner 12-25-16
VATICAN CORNER The Christmas tree and Nativity scene in St. Peter’s Square this year, while very beautiful, also highlight social issues such as care for the environment, inspiration for the sick, and the plight of migrants. The 82 ft. high spruce tree came from the...
Bulletin 12-25-16
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Vatican Corner 12-18-16
VATICAN CORNER Since July, 2016, a white and blue-striped RV style van marked with a Vatican City license plate and coat of arms has been running around Rome bringing free medical care to the poor. The RV was converted into a mobile medical unit and donated by the...
Pastors Desk 12-18-16
The great writer Max Lucado tells about his neighbor who was trying to teach his six-year-old son how to shoot a basketball. They were out in the backyard. The father shot a couple of times, saying, “Do it just like that, son; it’s real easy.” The little boy tried...
Bulletin 12-18-16
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Vatican Corner 12-11-16
VATICAN CORNER On September 19, 2016, four prominent cardinals wrote a letter to Pope Francis and to Cardinal Gerhard Müller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, citing conflicting interpretations of the Apostolic Exhortation on Love in the...
Pastors Desk 12-11-16
A number of years ago, a young college student was working as an intern at his college’s Museum of Natural History. One day while working at the cash register in the gift shop, he saw an elderly couple come in with a little girl in a wheelchair. As he looked more...
Bulletin 12-11-16
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Las Posadas 2016
Fri 16 7:00pm Novena Sat 17 7:00pm Novena Sun 18 7:00pm Novena Mon 19 7:00pm Novena Tues 20 7:00pm Novena Wed 21 7:00pm Novena Thurs 22 7:00pm Novena Fri 23 7:00pm Novena Sat 24 6:00pm Spanish Mass
Simbang Gabi 2016
Fri 16 5:30am Novena Mass Sat 17 5:30am Novena Mass Sun 18 5:30am Novena Mass Mon 19 5:30am Novena Mass Tues 20 5:30am Novena Mass Wed 21 5:30am Novena Mass Thurs 22 5:30am Novena Mass Fri 23 5:30am Novena Mass Sat 24 5:30am Novena...
Immaculate Conception 2016
Thursday 08 7:00am English Mass 8:30am English Mass 7:00pm Bilingual Mass Saturday 10 6:00pm Spanish Mass, followed by Rosary in the Gym
Our Lady of Guadalupe Novena 2016
Sat 03 5:30pm Rosary & Novena Mass Sun 04 5:30pm Rosary & Novena Mass Mon 05 6:30pm Rosary & Novena Mass Tues 06 6:30pm Rosary & Novena Mass Wed 07 6:30pm Rosary & Novena Mass Thurs 08 6:30pm Rosary & Novena Mass...
New Year 2017
Saturday 31 4:30pm Mass English 6:00pm Mass Spanish 7:00pm New Years Eve Celebration in the Hall Midnight — Benediction ******************************************************* Sunday 01 7:30am Mass English 9:00am Mass English 10:30am Mass English 12:15pm...
Christmas 2016
Saturday 24 5:30am Simbang Gabi 4:30 pm Mass English 6:00pm Mass Spanish 7:00pm Las Posadas 11:30pm Christmas Carols Midnight Mass—English ******************************* Sunday 25 7:30am Mass English 9:00am Mass English 10:30am Mass...