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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.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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