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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