Download 10th Sunday in Ordinary Time June 5, 2016

OUR LADY OF LORETTO CATHOLIC CHURCH
1806 Novato Blvd., Novato, CA 94947
415-897-2171
FAX 415-897-8251
Parish Office Hours Monday-Friday 9am to 5pm
10th Sunday in Ordinary Time
June 5, 2016
Jesus raises from the dead the son of a widow in the city of Nain
OUR LADY OF LORETTO PARISH
“Empowered by the Spirit of God we celebrate Jesus’ presence in Prayer,
Liturgy, Sacrament and Service”
Mass Intentions
June 4 to June12
BC: Fr. Brian Costello ME: Fr. Manuel Estrada
NH: Fr. Neil Healy
Day
Time
Intentions
Priest
Saturday 6/4
9:00am
5:00pm
7:00pm
Mike Doolittle +
Louise Sciutti +
Fr. Marty Avila +
NH
NH
ME
Sunday 6/5
8:00am
10:00am
12 Noon
Eileen Costello +
Esther Mears (L)
OLL Parishioners
BC
NH
ME
Monday 6/6
9:00am
Charlie Schnell +
ME
Tuesday 6/7
9:00am
Tim Lockwood Family (L)
NH
Wednesday 6/8
9:00am
Hassan Ahmed +
NH
Thursday 6/9
9:00am
Louisette Sciutti +
ME
Friday 6/10
9:00am
Brian Costello (L)
BC
Saturday 6/11
9:00am
5:00pm
7:00pm
Jay Stamps, Jr. +
Horan Family (L) and +
OLL Parishioners
BC
BC
ME
8:00am
10:00am
12 Noon
Mike + and Kathy (L) Doolittle
Morena Monterrosa +
Fr. Juan Manuel Lopez (L)
BC
BC
ME
Sunday 6/12
May all our deceased
Parishioners rest in the
loving arms
of God, especially:
Edwin Ramirez Guerra
Please pray for our parishioners who are sick and suffering
that they may know the embrace of Christ’s healing love.
Adita Claire, Bob Corley, Paula DiStefano, Jesse Fuette, Fr. Dustin Gorell, Pete Hanley, Walt Heim, Jean Holt, Sharon Kielty, Marjorie Lane, Tom Martinez, Julia Matos,
Sal Miceli, Wanda Mower, Ray Ostertag, Dalton O’Sullivan, Alice Rosaire, Arlene
Schober, Louise Shipman, Paula and Dan Stilling, Mary Stryker, Lee Tucker,
Niloo Vahid, Cathy Westover
We are updating our prayer list and have removed names which have been
on the list for some time. Please call the Rectory to have someone
included on the Prayer List.
Rev. Brian Costello
frbrian@ollnovato.org Ext.227
Mass Times
Pastor
Monday—Friday 9:00 am
Rev. J. Manuel Estrada
frmanuel@ollnovato.org EXT 230
Parochial Vicar
Saturday 9:00am
5:00 pm (Vigil Mass)
7:00 pm (Spanish Vigil Mass)
Rev. Neil Healy
In Residence EXT 233
Sunday 8:00 am, 10:00 am,
12 Noon Spanish Mass
Rev. Mr. Alex Madero, Deacon
Patrick Reeder EXT. 234
Parish Manager
Eucharistic Adoration
Every Friday
9:30am-5:00 pm
Office Staff
Erin Troy EXT. 222
Allen Shirley EXT. 236
Sacrament of Reconciliation
Saturday3:00pm-4:00pm
Our Lady of Loretto School
Mrs. Kathleen Kraft, Principal
415-892-8621
Parish Religious Education
Amy Bjorklund Reeder, Dir. Grades 1-6
Kathleen Pitti
415-897-6714
Sandro Garcia Grades 1-3
en Espanol
415-897-2171 ext.225
Annie Troy, Dir. Youth Ministry
and Confirmation
415-897-2171 ext.277
PRIEST EMERGENCY NUMBER
415-301-0514
Rosary
Monday—Thursday after
9am Mass and 5:30pm
Friday after 9am Mass and at 5pm
Sunday at 3:00pm
Baptisms
Please contact the RectoryCatechesis Required
Marriages
Please contact the Rectory at least
6 months in advance
Our Lady of Loretto
St. Vincent de Paul Society
415-497-5090
Visit us on the Web www.ollnovato.org
E-mail us:
church@ollnovato.org
Reception for Fr. Manuel and Deacon Alex
All parishioners are invited to a reception in the hall for Fr.
Manuel and Deacon Alex on Sunday June 19 after the
noon Mass. The Directiva, Helping Hands, Knights of Columbus and St. Vincent de Paul are coordinating this parish event. On Father's Day, come celebrate, thank, and
honor these men who have been our spiritual "fathers".
Food and beverage will be provided.
Families are welcome.
Father Brian’s letter will return next week. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy this story.
There were four churches and a synagogue in a small town: a Presbyterian
church, a Baptist church, a Methodist church, a Catholic church and a Jewish
synagogue. Each church and the synagogue had a problem with squirrels.
The Presbyterian church called a meeting to decide what to do about the squirrels. After
much prayer and consideration they determined the squirrels were predestined to be there and
they shouldn’t interfere with God’s divine will.
At the Baptist church the squirrels had taken an interest in the baptistery. The deacons met
and decided to put a water slide on the baptistery and let the squirrels drown themselves. The
squirrels liked the slide and, unfortunately, knew instinctively how to swim so twice as many
squirrels showed up the following week.
The Methodist church decided that they were not in a position to harm any of God’s creatures.
So, they humanely trapped their squirrels and set them free near the Baptist Church. Two
weeks later the squirrels were back when the Baptists took down the water slide.
But the Catholic church came up with a very unique strategy. They baptized all the squirrels
and consecrated them as members of the church. Now they only see them at Christmas and
Easter.
Not much was heard form the Jewish synagogue, they took one squirrel and circumcised him.
They haven’t seen a squirrel since.
TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION
Unless Professor Einstein’s theory of relativity can be translated into any useful kind of time-travel, most
of our clues about life in the early church will have to come from ancient letters and ancient prayer texts. A
prayer text from a dusty library may yield, for example, an understanding of what “presbyters” actually did.
We have such a prayer from the early third century from the hand of Hippolytus of Rome. While our modern
prayers derive a great deal from his, some of the practices of the ancient church have fallen away. In his day,
bishops were chosen by the people, and the other bishops merely consented. Presbyters, by contrast, seem to
have been chosen by the bishops. This makes sense, since it allowed the bishops to hand-pick their most trusted advisers.
It seems that bishops were at first reluctant to share their presiding at the Eucharist with presbyters. In fact,
by the time of the fourth-century church’s growth spurt in Rome, the
bishop sent deacons out with fragments of the host from his Eucharist
to drop into the chalices of the presbyters at the outlying eucharistic
celebrations. We still have a vestige of this fermentum in the Mass today, a reminder of the early bishops’ desire to give a powerful sign of
the unity of all celebrations of the Eucharist with their ministry, and a
clue to their reluctance to delegate a sacramental ministry to the presbyters.
—Rev. James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.
June 2016
Thank you for your participation in the Winter Homeless Shelter Dinners
For the past five years Our Lady of Loretto has provided meals for the R.E.S.T. (Rotating Emergency Shelter
Team-providing shelter for the homeless) during the Winter months.
The response, again this year, from members of Our Lady of Loretto parish has been most generous, from purchasing and preparing delicious home cooked meals to donating over 400 pair of socks, gloves, hats, rain ponchos, scarves and toiletries. All who were sheltered by the REST program were so very appreciative of your
generosity and efforts to make their lives more comfortable during the winter season.
In addition, OLL parishioners generously provided two meals last summer during the REST pilot program to
house the homeless for eight weeks at St. Anselm’s Gym.
Christ has no body now, but yours, No hands, nor feet on earth, but yours.
Yours are the eyes through which Christ looks with compassion into the world.
Yours are the feet with which Christ walks to do good.
Yours are the hands with which Christ blesses the world. (St Teresa of Avila)
May God bless each of you who gave in some way for your kindness, generosity, and caring. You have truly
been Christ to those in need.
Joanna Gernetzke
Ann Koniaris
Ann Senior
GOD IS CALLING
YOU! A vocation –
marriage, priesthood,
religious life, etc. - is a
call to love and every
baptized person has
one! But perhaps
you’re feeling a tug to
give your heart to Jesus exclusively, sitting at His feet like Mary Magdalene, or
perhaps you’ve wondered what life is like as a cloistered
nun? If you’re a single, Catholic woman between the ages of 18-40 years, we invite you to spend a day of discernment on July 16th with the Dominican Contemplative
Nuns of Corpus Christi Monastery in Menlo Park, CA.
Catch a glimpse of the same hidden life of love that has
been lived at the heart of the Church and the Dominican
Order since St. Dominic founded the first community of
Dominican nuns in 1206. For more information or to reserve your spot, contact Sister Joseph Marie, O.P., at
vocations@nunsmenlo.org, or visit our website at
www.nunsmenlo.org/vocation-discernment-event. Space
is limited and fills fast!
THANK YOU
The Our Lady of Loretto Saint Vincent de Paul
Society collected $4,510 last weekend to support the
poor of the Parish. God bless you.
Extend your mercy towards others, so that there can be no one
in need whom you meet without helping. For what hope is there
for us if God should withdraw His Mercy from us?
St. Vincent de Paul
HOPE AND LIFE
Today’s readings tell the story of two widows. The
first reading relates the plight of the widow with whom
the prophet Elijah stayed; the Gospel tells about the widow of Nain. In each story, the widow’s only son had died.
For people who lived in those cultures, the son was the
only support of a widow, and the carrying on of the family name by the son was equal to immortality. A widow
whose only son has died could lose all hope.
Elijah and Jesus are the restorers of hope; they bring
the sons back to life. Saint Paul was metaphorically raised
from the dead when he experienced the conversion and
call from God that he describes in today’s second reading.
What are Christians called to do today? We may not
be able to raise the dead, but perhaps we can rekindle
hope for a single parent. We may not be able to convert a
persecutor like Paul, but if we speak the gospel openly
and gently with our lives, we might touch a life with the
Good News.
TODAY’S READINGS
First Reading — Elijah revives the son of a widow
(1 Kings 17:17-24).
Psalm — I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued
me (Psalm 30).
Second Reading — Paul explains God’s call to him to
preach to the Gentiles (Galatians 1:11-19).
Gospel — Jesus raises from the dead the son of a widow
in the city of Nain (Luke 7:11-17).
This Week at OLL
June 5—June 12
Sun.
Mon.
Tue.
Wed.
Thurs.
Fri.
Sat.
Sun.
10th Sunday in Ordinary Time
SVDP—Library—7pm
Helping Hands Prayer Group—1pm—Church
Al-Anon—Convent – 7:15pm
Our Lady’s Prayer Group—Church—7:30pm
CDA—Hall—6:30pm
Choir—Church—6:30pm
Adoration—Chapel—9:30pm to 5:00pm
Cenacle—Chapel—9:30am
11th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Esta semana en OLL
5 Junio — 12 Junio
Domingo: Decimo Domingo Tiempo Ordinario
Segundo Collection para SVDP
Martes: Helping Hands Grupo de Oración
por la Iglesia-1pm
JPC Discipulados—Capilla del Convento –7pm
Nuestra Señora del Perpetuo Socorro-Chapel-6pm
Al-Anon-Convento - 7:15 pm
Miércoles: Nuestra Señora Grupo de
Oración- Capilla– 7:30pm
Ensavo del Coro-Espanol—Iglesia—7pm
Jueves:
Viernes: Adoration—Chapel—9:30pm to 5pm
Sab:
Cenacle—Chapel—9:30am
Domingo: Undecimo Domingo del Tiempo Ordinario
Golfers, if you haven’t
already sent in your
reservation form,
please do so as soon as
possible, as the golf
tournament is fast approaching on June 23rd. Thank you!
From OLL Confirmation & Youth Ministry
Please join us in prayer for our OLL teens who are taking
their final exams this week and for those seniors and 8th
graders who are graduating! May God bless them as they
move on toward the next chapter of their lives.
Check out our bulletin board in the back of the church to
see what our OLL teens were up to this past school year!
Summer updates & schedules will be posted there as well.
Our next OLL YM Thursday will take place on June 16!
Teens interested in golfing in or working at our 12th Annual YM Golf Tournament should call the youth ministry
office for more information. Lots of service hours are
available to those who want to get a jump on their volunteer requirements for next school year (both school AND
Confirmation!)
WORK OPPORTUNITIES: OLL YOUTH MINISTRY will
be sending 25 young people to this year’s Steubenville San
Diego conference this Summer from July 29-31. We need your
help getting there and we’re willing to work for it! While we
will be fundraising in the months to come, each family is responsible for contributing $400 – this works out to be about 2/3
of their total trip cost. We have already had requests from parishioners looking to hire out yard help, set-up/clean-up for
events, etc. If you have any opportunities for our teens, please
contact the youth ministry office. (annie@ollnovato.org; 8972171 x277) Thanks! If you are interested in learning more
about what our teens will experience during this powerful
weekend, please visit www.allforgodcatholic.org and click on
the “Steubenville San Diego” tab.
TRADICIONES
DE NUESTRA FE
El día 9 de
junio del año 1597,
falleció el jesuita José de Anchieta proveniente de las Islas
Canarias, España. Este santo “apóstol de Brasil” fue
beatificado en 1980 gracias a sus grandes esfuerzos
humanitarios, literarios y evangelizadores en Brasil.
Llegó a Brasil en 1553 donde aprendió Tupí, el idioma de los nativos. Enseñaba a los indígenas, evangelizándolos con la doctrina cristiana y educándolos en
historia, filosofía y medicina. Eventualmente fundó
el Colegio Jesuita de São Paulo de Piratininga donde
tuvo la audacia de educar, junto a los hijos de los
nativos, los hijos de los portugueses. Para este esfuerzo escribió muchos libros y manuales, cosa que
le mereció ser el primer escritor en Brasil.
Además de ser un escritor prolífico, este misionero dedicó su vida a predicar el Evangelio en Brasil, país que cruzó a pie, fundando pueblos y escuelas para los indígenas cristianos. Estos le llamaban el
“santo volador” por la velocidad con que caminaba.
Su celo por el Evangelio lo motivaba a seguir caminando. Como dice el profeta Isaías: “Que hermosos
son los pies del que trae buena nuevas” (Isaías 52:7).
LECTURAS DE HOY
Primera lectura — Elías revive al hijo de la viuda
(1 Reyes 17:17-24).
Salmo — Te alabaré, Señor, eternamente
(Salmo 30 [29]).
Segunda lectura — Pablo explica la llamada que recibió
de Dios para predicar el Evangelio a los gentiles
(Gálatas 1:11-19).
Evangelio — Jesús devuelve la vida al hijo muerto de la
viuda de Naín (Lucas 7:11-17).
Carta del P. Brian regresará la próxima semana. Mientras tanto, esperamos
que disfruten de esta historia.
Había cuatro iglesias y una sinagoga en una pequeña ciudad: una iglesia presbiteriana, una iglesia Bautista, una iglesia metodista, una iglesia católica y una sinagoga judía. Cada iglesia y la sinagoga tenían un
problema con las ardillas.
La iglesia presbiteriana convocó a una reunión para decidir qué hacer
con las ardillas. Después de mucha oración y consideración que determinan las ardillas estaban predestinados a estar allí y no deben interferir con la voluntad divina de Dios.
En la iglesia Bautista las ardillas habían tomado un interés en el baptisterio. Los diáconos se
reunieron y decidieron poner un tobogán de agua en el baptisterio y dejar que las ardillas se
ahogan. Las ardillas le gusta la diapositiva y, por desgracia, sabía instintivamente cómo nadar de manera doble de ardillas se presentaron la semana siguiente.
La iglesia Metodista decidió que no estaban en condiciones de hacer daño a cualquiera de
las criaturas de Dios. Por lo tanto, con humanidad atrapados sus ardillas y los puestos en
libertad cerca de la Iglesia Bautista. Dos semanas más tarde, las ardillas estaban de vuelta
cuando los Bautistas tomaron por el tobogán de agua.
Pero la iglesia católica llegó con una estrategia muy singular. Bautizaban todas las ardillas y
los consagró como miembros de la iglesia. Ahora sólo ven ellos en Navidad y Pascua.
No se habló mucho formar la sinagoga judía, tomaron una ardilla y le circuncidados. No han
visto una ardilla desde entonces.
ESPERANZA Y VIDA
Las Escrituras del hoy nos cuentan la historia de
dos viudas. La primera lectura relata la difícil situación en
la que vivía la viuda con la que el profeta Elías se quedó y
el Evangelio cuenta la historia de la viuda de Naín, en
cada una de estas historias a cada viuda el hijo único de
ellas murió. En la cultura de esos países en ese tiempo, el
hijo era el sustento para la viuda y quien además continuaba la descendencia familiar que era igual a la inmortalidad. La viuda cuyo único hijo hubiera muerto perdía toda
esperanza.
Elías y Jesús son los restauradores de esperanza;
ellos devuelven la vida a sus hijos. San Pablo, metafóricamente hablando, revivió de la muerte a la vida cuando él
se convirtió después de la llamada de Dios de la que él
habla en la segunda lectura.
¿A qué están llamados los cristianos hoy en día?
Quizá no podemos revivir de la muerte, pero quizá podemos reanimar la esperanza de un padre o una madre
soltera. Quizá no podemos convertir a un perseguidor como Pablo, pero si abiertamente hacemos vida el Evangelio en nuestras vidas, podríamos tocar una vida con la
Buena Nueva.
LECTURAS DE LA SEMANA
Lunes:
1 Re 17:1-6; Sal 121 (120):1bc-8; Mt 5:1-12
Martes: 1 Re 17:7-16; Sal 4:2-5, 7b-8; Mt 5:13-16
Miércoles: 1 Re 18:20-39; Sal 16 (15):1b-2ab, 4, 5ab,
8, 11; Mt 5:17-19
Jueves:
1 Re 18:41-46; Sal 65 (64):10-13; Mt 5:20-26
Viernes: 1 Re 19:9a, 11-16; Sal 27 (26):7-9abc, 13-14;
Mt 5:27-32
Sábado: Hch 11:21b-26; 13:1-3; Sal 16 (15):1b-2a, 5,
7-10; Mt 5:33-37
Domingo: 2 Sm 12:7-10, 13; Sal 32 (31):1-2, 5, 7, 11;
Gal 2:16, 19-21; Lc 7:36 — 8:3 [7:36-50]
LA PRESENCIA DE DIOS
Date cuenta que por encima de todo estás en la presencia de Dios... vacíate por completo y siéntate a esperar, contento con la gracia de Dios, como un polluelo que
no prueba ni come nada sino de lo que su madre le da.
—San Romualdo