November 18, 2018
Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
OUR LADY OF LORETTO CHURCH AND SCHOOL 1806 Novato Blvd., Novato, CA 94947
415-897-2171 FAX 415-897-8251 Parish Office Hours Monday-Friday 9am to 5pm
Please pray for our parishioners who are sick and suffering that they may know the embrace of Christ’s healing love.
Kay Antongiovanni, Avinia Family, Ignacia Azpeitia, May Barnett, Elaine Benson, Brian Biasca, Richard Blacker, Louis Boscacci, Louise Brannigan, Louise Caldwell,
Steve Cantor, Patricia Cerini, Bea Cooper, Andrea Costello, John Cullen, Anette Di-az, Joe DiMare, Peter Dardis, Tom Doyle, Delmida Edwards, Carolyn Elliott, Rich Elliott, Michael Fielding, Peter and Cindy Fulchiron, Claudia Gitson, John Gross,
Berth Guantes, Margaret Hamlett, Joseph Harris, Julia Hernandez, Max Hodel, Alice Horn, Ingrid Iacovetto, Eleanora LaCarrubba, Gary Lai, Rose Lemoni, Alex Madias, Kate McAdams, Pat McAuliffe, John McMahon, Jesse Mendoza, Mary Miranda, Paola Tirado Moreda, John Marotto, Peggy Murphy, Fran O’Brien, Julio Ordonez, Dalton O’Sullivan Family, John Pardini, Tearah Parker, Ali Parviz, Paul Patocchi, Bob Per-kins, Madeline Phelan, Mayra Ruth Pineda, Jim Prather, Lorraine Priolo, Phil Rap-paport, Irene Reich, Kerry Rodriguez, Arthur Ruiz, Allen Schwoob, Kenric Silva,
Mary Jo Simon, Rene Snodgrass, Snodgrass and Trechter Families, Sharon Spry, Colby Thompson, Monica S., Sue Steinbach, Gualberto Pech Tah, Guadalupe Torres,
Carlota Tovar, Betty Van Stratton, Steve Warner, Cathy Westover, David Wilson
May all our deceased Parishioners rest in
the loving arms of Christ.
Mass Intentions November 17th through November 25th
BC : Fr. Brian Costello EA: Fr. Erick Arauz
Saturday 11/17 9:00am 5:00pm 7:00pm
Hugh Harris + Leo and Connie Alvarez + Consepcion Herrera +
BC BC EA
Sunday 11/18 8:00am 10:00am 12:00pm
Kathleen Seaman + OLL Parishioners Sandra and Jaqueline Ordoñez (L)
EA BC EA
Monday 11/19 9:00am
Felix Elu + EA
Tuesday 11/20 9:00am
Ruth Beckmann + EA
Wednesday 11/21 9:00am
Angulo Family (L) and + BC
Thursday 11/22 10:00am
Deceased Members of St. Vincent de Paul BC
Friday 11/23 9:00am
Cecelia Ottolini + EA
Saturday 11/24 9:00am 5:00pm 7:00pm
Gertrude Herkommer + Marty Challenger + Maria de Jesus Garcia +
EA BC EA
Sunday 11/25 8:00am 10:00am 12:00pm
Donna Globe + Leo Olson + OLL Parishioners
BC EA EA
Day Time Intentions Priest
Rev. Brian Costello, Pastor Ext. 227
Rev. Erick E. Arauz Parochial Vicar Ext. 233
RECTORY OFFICE
415-897-2171
Patrick Reeder EXT. 234 Parish Manager
Office Staff Erin Troy EXT. 222
Allen Shirley EXT. 236
Our Lady of Loretto School Mrs. Kathleen Kraft, Principal
415-892-8621
Parish Religious Education
Amy Bjorklund Reeder, Dir. Grades 1-6 and Co-Director
of Adult Faith Formation
415-897-6714
Annie Troy, Dir. Youth Ministry and Confirmation
Co-Director of Adult Faith Formation 415-897-2171 ext.277
Kathleen Pitti—Religious Ed. Secretary
Richard Elliott, Choir Director
1-925-997-5041 [email protected]
PRIEST EMERGENCY NUMBER
415-301-0514 EMERGENCIES ONLY PLEASE
Mass Times
Monday—Friday 9:00 am
Saturday 9:00am 5:00 pm (Vigil Mass)
7pm Spanish Vigil Mass
Sunday 8:00 am, 10:00 am, 12:00 pm Spanish Mass
Eucharistic Adoration
Every Friday 9:30am-5:00 pm and
Sacrament of Reconciliation
Saturday3:00pm-4:00pm
Rosary Monday—Thursday after 9am Mass and 5:30pm
Friday after 9am Mass and at 5pm Sunday at 3:00pm
Baptisms
Please contact the Rectory- Catechesis Required
Pre– Baptismal Classes in English are held the second Saturday of each month at 10am.
Pre– Baptismal classes in Spanish are held on the third Thursday of each month at 6pm.
Please call the rectory office to schedule your class.
Marriages Please contact the Rectory at least
6 months in advance
Our Lady of Loretto St. Vincent de Paul Society
415-497-5090
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SPLEDORS OF EASTERN EUROPE PILGRIMAGE Including the Passion Play at Oberammergau
Hosted by Fr. Brian and Father McCain Prague—Budapest—Vienna—Oberammergau—
Munich 11 Days—September 7—17, 2020
$4,149 from San Francisco See the flyers available in the vestibules
for more details.
Tuesday November 27, 2018 10:00 am Thursday December 13, 2018 10:00 am
THIS WEEK IN OLL CONFIRMATION & YOUTH MINISTRY
HAPPY THANKSGIVING FROM
OLL YOUTH MINISTRY!
The convent is closed all week due to the Thanksgiving holiday. There will be no Confir-mation classes or youth ministry events. We look forward to seeing our teens for their regular class times on the week of November 26.
Interested in being a part of our youth ministry team? The ways that you can help are many and varied! Perhaps you would like to help pro-vide food for our ministry nights, assist with our youth choir, chaperone the convent on a game night...there are so many opportunities to sup-port our youth! - call the youth ministry office or email [email protected]. INTERESTED IN BECOMING CATHOLIC? We would love to talk to you about the Truth, Beauty and Goodness to be found in Jesus’ Church! Contact Annie Troy for information: [email protected] / 415-897-2171.
FROM ADULT FAITH FORMATION OLL BOOK CLUB The OLL Book Club will meet next on Decem-ber 6th at 10am in the Convent Chapel for cof-fee & discussion of Abandonment to Divine Providence by Jean Pierre de Caussade Don't have time to read the book? Come and join us anyway, all are welcome! If you would like discussion questions emailed to you ahead of time, please contact [email protected]
Care-giver Support Group If you are interested in participating in a care-giver support group, please contact Sr. Jean-ette. We are currently meeting twice a month and are open to have participants come when they can. Please contact me for details. (415-897-5700 or 415-897-2171 ext. 226).
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION GRADES 1-6 NO CLASSES
THIS WEEK OR NEXT WEEK CLASSES RESUME ON
MONDAY NOVEMBER 26th
ENCOURAGEMENT This Sunday's Gospel is our final selection from Mark for this liturgical year. It is taken from the end of Jesus' teaching in Jerusalem immediately preceding the account of his arrest and passion. In it Jesus gives his disciples hope to sustain them
through his passion and death and any persecution or suffering that they would encounter after his resur-rection. The words from the book of Daniel also provided hope and encouragement to the people of Daniel's time. The encouragement in these scriptures is meant for us as well, for none of us will escape tribulation in our lives. Followers of Jesus will be able to endure suffering with joyful hope, knowing that Christ's love will lead us along the way of discipleship and give us eternal life with God.
THE GLORIOUS BIBLE It is one of the glories of the Bible that it can embrace many meanings in a single passage. --St. Thomas Aquinas
Dear Friends, Thursday is Thanksgiving. Mass on Thanksgiving will be at 10am. Mass will be bilingual so that all of us , as a a community, can celebrate as one. A col-lection will be taken us and divided between SVDP and the OLL Christmas Out-reach Program. At the end of Mass, I will bless the bread and wine you bring for your Thanksgiving dinner. I couldn’t think of a better way to begin your Thanks-giving Celebration thank by coming to Mass.
Our 42nd Annual Christmas Luncheon will be on Friday, December 7th, for 10am to 3pm in the Parish Hall. This is one of our biggest fundraisers of the year for our school. Fly-ers are available in the vestibules of the Church. Since I last wrote you, we have had two major meetings: the first was our Parish Coun-cil Meeting and secondly, our Lector and EM Meeting. Both meetings went well. We have many challenges facing our parish, but with the good will of our parishioners, we can meet those challenges head on and become the parish God wants us to be. I am thankful for all your hard work. Despite the heated rhetoric coming form Washington, shootings, and fires, we as a coun-try have much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving Day. Happy Thanksgiving! Father Brian
Here is an article from Dear Abby which I thought was good. I hope you do as well.
How’s your health? Not so good? Well, thank God you’ve lived this long. A lot of people haven’t. You’re hurting? Thousands— maybe millions are hurting more. (Have you ever visited a veteran’s hospital? Or a rehabilitation clinic for handicapped children?) If you awakened this morning and were able to hear the birds sing, use your vocal chords to utter human sounds, walk to the breakfast table on two good legs, and read the newspaper with two good eyes, praise the Lord! A lot of people couldn’t
How’s your pocketbook? Thin? Well, most of the living world is a lot poorer. No pensions. No welfare. No food stamps. No Social Security. In fact, one third of the people in the world will go to bed hungry tonight.
Are you lonely? The way to have a friend is to be one. If nobody calls you, call them. Go out of your way to do something nice for somebody. It’s a sure cure for the blues.
Are you concerned about your country’s future. Hooray! Our system has been saved by such concern. Concern for honesty in government, concern for peace, and concern for fair play under the law. Our country may not be a rose garden, but it is also not a patch of weeds. Freedom rings! Look and listen. You can still worship at the church of your choice, cast a secret ballot, and even criticize your government without fearing a knock on the head or a knock on the door at midnight. And if you want to live under a different sys-tem, you are free to go. There are no walls or fences, nothing to keep you here.
As a final thought, here is my Thanksgiving Prayer:
Heavenly Father: We thank you for food and remember the hungry. We thank you for friends and re-member the friendless. We thank you for freedom and remember the enslaved. May these remembrances stir us to service. That your gifts to us may be used for others.
This Week at OLL November 18 — November 25
Sun. 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Mon. SVDP—Teachers Lounge—7pm Tue. Perpetual Help Prayer Group—6pm—Chapel Al-Anon/Alateen—Convent –7:15pm Wed. Our Lady’s Prayer Group—Church—7:30pm Thurs. RECTORY CLOSED Choir Practice—Church— 6:30pm Charismatic Prayer Group—Chapel—7pm Fri. RECTORY CLOSED Adoration—Chapel—9:30am to 5:00pm Sat. Cenacle—Chapel –9:30am Sun. Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ the King of the Universe
Esta semana en OLL 18 Noviembre — 25 Noviembre
Domingo: XXXIII Domingo Tiempo Ordinario Lunes: Martes: 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—9:30am to 5pm Sab: Cenacle—Chapel—9:30am Domingo: Solemnidad de Nuestro Señor Jesucristo, Rey del Universo
RCIA/Adult Education Will not meet this week. Happy Thanksgiving!
TODAY'S READINGS First Reading -- Those who lead the many to justice shall be like the stars forever (Daniel 12:1-3). Psalm -- You are my inheritance, O Lord! (Psalm 16). Second Reading -- Where there is forgiveness, there is no long-er offering for sin (Hebrews 10:11-14, 18). Gospel -- Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away (Mark 13:24-32).
ALIENTO El Evangelio de este domingo es nuestra selección final de Marcos para este año litúrgico. Pertenece a las últimas enseñanzas de Jesús en Jerusalén y se encuentra inmedi-
atamente antes del relato de su arresto y pasión. En este, Jesús da a sus discípulos es-peranza para sostenerlos en su pasión y muerte y en cualquier persecución o su-frimiento que enfrenten después de su resur-rección. Las palabras del libro de Daniel también les brindan esperanza y aliento a los contempo-ráneos de Daniel. El aliento de estas lecturas también nos sirve a nosotros, ya que ninguno de nosotros puede evitar transitar tiempos difíciles en su vida. Los seguidores de Jesús podrán soportar el sufrimiento con esperanza porque saben que el amor de Cristo nos guia-rá para poder ser buenos discípulos y nos da-rá la vida eterna junto a Dios.
LECTURAS DE HOY Primera lectura -- En aquel tiempo se levantará el guardián de tu pueblo. Entonces serán salvados cada uno de los que estén inscritos en el libro. (Daniel 12:1-3). Salmo -- Protégeme, Dios mío, que me refugio en ti (Salmo 16 [15]). Segunda lectura -- Ahora, el que ofreció un único sacrifi-cio por los pecados y está sentado a la derecha de Dios, espera que sus enemigos sean colocados como tarima de sus pies (Hebreos 10:11-14, 18). Evangelio -- Nadie sabe cuándo será el día ni la hora (Marcos 13:24-32).
Queridos amigos, El jueves es acción de gracias. La misa de Acción de Gracias será a las 10am. La misa será bilingüe para que todos nosotros, como comunidad, po-damos celebrar como uno solo. Se nos llevará una colección que se dividirá en-tre SVDP y el Programa OLL Christmas Outreach. Al final de la misa, bendeciré el pan y el vino que traigas para tu cena de Acción de Gracias. No podría pensar
en una mejor manera de comenzar su agradecimiento a la Celebración del Día de Acción de Gracias al asistir a la misa. Nuestro 42.º almuerzo anual de Navidad será el viernes, 7 de diciembre, de 10am a 3pm en el Salón Parroquial. Este es uno de nuestros mayores recaudadores de fondos del año para nuestra escuela. Los volantes están disponibles en los portales de la Iglesia. Desde la última vez que le escribí, hemos tenido dos reuniones principales: la primera fue nuestra Reunión del Consejo Parroquial y la segunda, nuestra Reunión de Lectores y EM. Ambas reuniones salieron bien. Tenemos muchos desafíos que enfrenta nuestra parroquia, pero con la buena voluntad de nuestros feligreses, podemos enfrentarlos y convertirnos en la parroquia que Dios quiere que seamos. Estoy agradecido por todo su trabajo duro. A pesar de la acalorada retórica de Washington, los tiroteos y los incendios, nosotros como país tenemos mucho que agradecer por este Día de Acción de Gracias. ¡Feliz día de acción de gracias! Padre Brian
Aquí hay un artículo de la querida Abby que pensé que era bueno. Espero que tú también. ¿Cómo estás de salud? ¿No tan bien? Bueno, gracias a Dios que has vivido tanto tiempo. Mucha gente no lo ha hecho. Te duele? Miles, tal vez millones están sufriendo más. (¿Alguna vez visitó un hospital de vet-eranos? ¿O una clínica de rehabilitación para niños discapacitados?) Si se despertó esta mañana y pudo es-cuchar a los pájaros cantar, use sus cuerdas vocales para emitir sonidos humanos, camine hasta la mesa del desayuno con dos piernas buenas. ¡Y lea el periódico con dos buenos ojos, alabado sea el Señor! Mucha gente no pudo ¿Cómo está tu billetera? ¿Delgado? Bueno, la mayor parte del mundo viviente es mucho más pobre. No hay pensiones. No hay bienestar. No hay cupones de alimentos. No hay seguridad social. De hecho, un tercio de las personas en el mundo se irán a dormir con hambre esta noche. ¿Estás sola? La manera de tener un amigo es ser uno. Si nadie te llama, llámalos. Haz todo lo posible para hacer algo bueno por alguien. Es una cura segura para los azules. ¿Te preocupa el futuro de tu país? ¡Hurra! Nuestro sistema ha sido salvado por tal preocupación. Pre-ocupación por la honestidad en el gobierno, preocupación por la paz y preocupación por el juego limpio ba-jo la ley. Puede que nuestro país no sea un jardín de rosas, pero tampoco es un trozo de maleza. ¡La libertad suena! Mira y escucha. Aún puede rendir culto en la iglesia de su elección, emitir un voto secreto e incluso criticar a su gobierno sin temer un golpe en la cabeza o un golpe en la puerta a medianoche. Y si quieres vivir bajo un sistema diferente, eres libre de irte. No hay paredes o vallas, nada que te mantenga aquí. Como pensamiento final, aquí está mi oración de Acción de Gracias: Padre celestial: Te agradecemos por la comida y recordamos a los hambrientos. Te damos las gracias por los amigos y recordamos a los amigos. Te agradecemos por la libertad y recordamos a los esclavizados. Que estos recuerdos nos conmuevan al servicio. Que tus dones para nosotros sean usados para otros.
