2555 SEVENTEENTH AVENUE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116 TEL: (415) 664-8481; FAX: (415) 661-2957 EMAIL: STCECILIA@STCECILIA.COM WEB: STCECILIA.COM

PARISH OFFICE:

Monday - Friday: 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM MASS SCHEDULE: SATURDAY: 5:00 PM (VIGIL) MONDAY - SATURDAY: 9:00 AM SUNDAY: 7:30 AM, 9:30 AM & 11:30 AM ROSARY: MONDAY - SATURDAY AT 8:35 AM LIVE BROADCAST WWW.STCECILIA.COM

CHILDREN’S FAITH FORMATION (CFF)

Pre-K and K-”First Steps in the Faith” Sunday, 9:30 AM in the Lower Church

Grades 1 through 8 Sunday, 8:30 AM in the Convent and Collins Center

Louise Foo, CFF Volunteer Email: lhyfoo@hotmail.com

SACRAMENT of BAPTISM

Registered parishioners are invited to have their children baptized at St. Cecilia’s. Parents and

Godparents must participate in our Baptismal Preparation program.

RITE of CHRISTIAN INITIATION of ADULTS (Adult Baptism)

For information, please call (415) 664-8481

CONFESSION

Saturday afternoons in the Church 3:30-4:30 PM

By Appointment (415) 664-8481

SACRAMENT of MATRIMONY To be married at St. Cecilia, either the bride or the

groom must be Roman Catholic. 1. You qualify as an “in parish” couple if you live within the parish boundaries or, have been regis-tered and active for six months or, have been raised in the parish. 2. If you do not meet one of the three qualifications, then you are considered “outside of parish” couple. 3. Contact the parish office at least six months prior to the date of your proposed wedding to participate in our marriage preparation program.

ANOINTING of the SICK This sacrament is for the elderly, the seriously ill, or those scheduled for surgery. Call us when a family member is admitted to a hospital or nursing facility.

SICK CALLS In case of emergency, please call 415-535-8719.

HOSPITAL VISITS &

MINISTRY to the HOMEBOUND Please call the Rectory with the names of

relatives or friends in the hospital or homebound.

PASTOR Rev. Rene Ramoso

ASSOCIATE PASTORS

Rev. Paul Arnoult Rev. Sebastine Bula, VC

DEACON : Rev. Mr. Rory Desmond

IN RESIDENCE

Rev. Msgr. Floro Arcamo Rev. L. Joseph Landi

PARISH MANAGER: Charity Garcia

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT: Irma Lavitoria

MUSIC DIRECTOR: Russell Ferreira - (650) 588-7493

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This Week’s Mass Intentions

Monday, August 09 Juliana Lacoste, Living

Larry Broussal

Anne P. Ward

Tuesday, August 10

Marco A. Beteta

James McGarry

Ashley Lacoste, Living

Wednesday, August 11

Lorraine McCue

Fr. Vito Perrone, Living

Mary Quinn, Living

Thursday, August 12

Fr. Vito Perrone, Living

Filomena Tiogangco Macapayag

Conor Hurley

Friday, August 13

William McLaughlin

Joy Dayoan Banaria

Otto Herber

Noreen Harrington

Saturday, August 14

Gail Beresford

Soan Van Nguyen

Kathleen Gallagher

Matthew and Agnes Doyle

Sunday, August 15

Margaret and Jeremiah Casey

Catherine Linehan

Daniel and Kevin O’Sullivan

NINeteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Aug. 08, 2021

CURRENT MASS schedule

At this time, we are celebrating one weekday Mass

at 9:00 AM, Monday thru Saturday.

Saturday (vigil) Mass at 5:00 PM and Sunday

Masses at 7:30 AM, 9:30 AM and 11:30 AM.

We are all asked by the Archdiocese to continue to

wear a mask at all times while inside the church

and maintain a social distance of three (3) feet.

Thanks to the Knights of Saint Cecilia for

faithfully staffing the church and making it

possible to keep the church open every day for

visitation, Monday thru Saturday, from 8:30 AM

until 2:00 PM, except holidays.

As of June 24th, the Sunday Mass Obligation is

restored by the Archbishop. However, as before

the pandemic, individuals who are ill, (or - for

medical reasons - at serious risk of infection), are

dispensed from attending Mass, as stipulated by

Canon Law.

Remember that all Masses are live-streamed, seven

days a week at stcecilia.com.

Meeting God Without Fear

What would you feel if God suddenly walked into a room? Fear?

Shame? Joy? Apprehension? Panic? A desire to hide? Relief when God

finally left?

Indeed, how would we even recognize God, should God walk into a

room?

Jane Tyson Cllement, a poet and a member of the Bruderhof

community, fantasizes about what might run through her mind and

heart if Jesus suddenly walked up to her. In a poem entitled, Vigil, she

writes:

What would I do, O Master,

if you came slowly out of the woods.

Would I know your step?

Would I know by my beating heart?

Would I know by your eyes?

Would I feel on my shoulder too, the burden you carry?

Would I rise and stand still till you drew near

or cover my eyes in shame?

Or would I simply forget everything

except that you had come and were here?

Those last lines highlight the most important of all truths, namely, that

God is love and only by letting that kind of love into our lives can we

save ourselves from disappointment, shame, and sadness.

I don’t often remember my dreams, nor do I set much stock by them,

but, several years ago, I had a dream that I both remember and set

some stock by. It went something like this:

For whatever reason, and dreams don’t give you a reason, I was asked

to go to an airport and pick up Jesus, who was arriving on a flight. I

was understandably nervous and frightened. A bevy of apprehensions

beset me: How would I recognize him? What would he look like? How

would he react to me? What would I say to him? Would I like what I

saw? More frightening yet, would he like what he saw when he looked

at me?

With those feelings surging through me, I stood, as one stands in a

dream, at the end of a long corridor nervously surveying the passengers

who were walking towards me. How would I recognize Jesus and would

his first glance at me reflect his disappointment?

But this was a good dream and it taught me as much about God as I’d

learned in all my years of studying theology. All of my fears were

alleviated in a second. What happened was the opposite of all my

expectations: suddenly, walking down the corridor towards me was

Jesus, smiling, beaming with delight, coming straight for me, rushing,

eager to meet me. Everything about him was stunningly and

wonderfully disarming. There was no awkward moment; everything

about him erased that. His eyes, his face, and his body embraced me

without reserve and without judgement. I knew he saw straight through

me, knew all my faults and weaknesses, my lack of substance, and none

of it mattered.

And, for that moment, none of it mattered to me either. Jesus was eager

to meet me! In that moment, as Jane Tyson Clement suggests, one

forgets everything, except that God is here. There’s no place for fear or

shame or wondering what God thinks of you.

And that’s a lesson we must somehow learn, somehow experience.

We live with too much fear of God.

Partly its bad theology, but mostly we fear because we’ve never

experienced the kind of love that’s manifest in God and we take for

granted that anyone who sees us as we really are (in our unloveliness,

weaknesses, pathology, sin, insubstantiality) will, in the end, be as

disappointed with us as we are with ourselves.

At the end of the day we expect that God is disappointed with us and

will greet us with a frown. The tragedy and sadness here is that,

because we think that God is disappointed in us, especially at those

times when we are disappointed with ourselves, we try to avoid meeting

the one person, the one love, and the one energy, God, that actually

understands us, accepts us, delights in us, and is eager to smile at us.

We are relieved that we never have to pick up Jesus at an airport.

That’s also true of church: we stay away from church exactly at those

times when we would most need to be there.

A prairie poet and former Oblate confrere, Harry Hellman, gets the last

word on this. He puts it well:

Let’s go back to the weather.

Most days you don’t notice there is any

until you fall into love, and/or sin,

and then you see the clouds and stare holes into heaven,

looking for Christ

when he’s really at your shoulder looking for you

and in such great shape, you’d never believe what he’s been

through. Then before you know how it happened, it’s July again or August

and you have time to do what you should have been doing all your life,

sitting or walking on the grass in bare feet

and loving. …

then you’re all petals once more, and tendrils

till the storm breaks

your heart.

And the biggest piece goes to heaven, and to hell with the weather. -Ron Rolheiser

We live with too much fear of God.

THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR GIFT

Offertory Collection 2021

July 24–August 01 - $13,835.50

2021 Archdiocesan Annual Appeal

AAA Goal Amount Received Due

$134,315 $42,070 (31%) $92,245

Thank you! To all those who have already participated in the

2021 Archdiocesan Annual Appeal, we are most appreciative.

Your gifts have helped our Church continue helping those who

need and depend on the ministries and services of the

Archdiocese.

Your support of the Appeal helps us meet our Parish obligation,

so please consider making a gift if you have not already done so.

Please be as generous as you can. Your gifts improve lives.

NEWLY BAPTIZED God bless you and keep you in the palm of His Hand.

Liam Kawika & Shane Aloysius Hurley

Emma Renee Tiffer

.FUNERALS Steven McInerney Marian Edna McLean

VOLUNTEER TEACHERS NEEDED We are looking for volunteers to help teach

Children’s Faith Formation on Sunday mornings. No previous experience required, just a love of your Catholic Faith and a willingness

to work with students. Lessons provided and training available. Please contact Mary Molly at

415-664-8481 or email faithformation.sf@gmail.com.

Jennifer Lyons • Teresa Cassidy • sfscfestival@gmail.com

COLLINS CENTER

(Doors open @ 1PM (10AM for exercise) Monday, August 09 Thursday, August 12 No Activity 10:00 AM - Exercise 1:30 PM - Bridge 1:30 PM - Scrabble Tuesday, August 10 1:30 PM - Knitting 1:30 PM - Bingo Friday, August 13 1:30 PM - Italian No Activity

All are required to wear a mask and maintain 3 feet

social distance while indoors.

SATURDAY CONFESSION Beginning August 7th from 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM,

we will resume Saturday Confessions in the Reconciliation/Bride Room.

WELCOME NEW PARISHIONERS - We are glad that you are here -

Carleen Durkin