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September 19, 2021 The Twenty-Fifth Week of Ordinary Time ‘‘e Seven Works of Mercy’’ Peter Brughel e Younger, c.1625
September 19, 2021 The Twenty-Fifth Week of Ordinary Time
Mass Schedule:Weekends
Saturday: 5:30 pm Sunday: 7:30, 9:30, 11:30 am, 5:30 pm
Daily MassMonday: 8:00 amTuesday-Saturday: 8:00 am, 5:30 pm
Our church is open weekdays at: 7:30 am and 5:00 pm
Live-Streamed MassesSunday: 9:30 am
Monday-Saturday: 8 am
Holy CommunionIn front of the Parish Office
on Arden Way Sundays: 10:30-11:15 only. Weekdays: Communion available at the Parish Office 8:30-9:00 am.
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Reconciliation (Confession)
Saturday: 3:00 pm and by appointment
Parish Officesare open from 10 am – 5 pm
Appointments are preferred: (916) 482-9666
Contact Information3235 Arden Way
Sacramento, CA 95825www.stignatiussac.org
(916) 482-9666
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Sacramento, CA 95825www.stignatiussacschool.org
(916) 488-3907
‘‘The Seven Works of Mercy’’ Peter Brughel The Younger, c.1625
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PARISH INFORMATION www.stignatiussac.org
PASTORAL STAFF(916) 482-9666
Pastor Fr. Tom Lucas, S.J.
Associate Pastor Fr. Art Wehr, S.J.
Associate Pastor Business Manager Fr. Chuck Tilley, S.J.
Associate Pastor Fr. Tom O’Neill, S.J
Deacons Rev. Mr. Jackson R. Gualco 916.357.7651 Rev. Mr. Anthony Pescetti, ext. 245
School Principal Patricia Kochis, ext. 102 [email protected]
Administrative Assistant to the Pastor Laura Chacon, ext. 212 [email protected]
Liturgy Director Alan Nissila, ext. 214 [email protected]
Music Director Sandi Holland, ext. 211 [email protected]
Director of Catechetical Ministry Fatima Avila-Ohlsen, ext. 238 [email protected] Director and Catechetical AssistantKyle Roessler, ext. [email protected]
Center for Ignatian Spirituality Director Michael Cheney, ext. 220 [email protected]
Baptism Coordinator & Annulment Advocate Jean Nelson, ext. 233 [email protected]
Pastral Council Chair Maribel Arizmendiz [email protected]
Sharing God’s Bounty Contact Virginia [email protected]
St. Vincent de Paul Conference Jon Berkley [email protected]
Annual Catholic Appeal ContactMitch [email protected] Feed-a-Family Contact Nik [email protected]
Homeless Assistance Resource Team Contact Jeannie [email protected]
It’s Our Church CoordinatorMark [email protected]
Honduras Sister Parish Contact Richard [email protected]
Loaves & Fishes Contact Lydia [email protected] Peace and Justice Contacts Monica Smith, Patty [email protected] Altar Care MinistryKathy O’[email protected]
Knights of Columbus Michael Fazio [email protected]
Dear Parishoners,
The Holy Father, Pope Francis, has designated Sunday, September 26th as World Day for Migrants and Refugees. In support of the Holy Father’s pastoral initiative, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops asks the Catholic community to observe Monday, September 20th to Sunday, September 26th as National Migration Week with prayer, works of charity and advocacy in support of our neighbors who are immigrants and refugees. The California Bishops have issued a pastoral statement encouraging the Catholic community to work in solidarity for immigrants and refugees, providing a hopeful witness of the wider “we,” the holy communion of life and charity to which the Lord Jesus calls us. Please join me in supporting our neighbors who are immigrants and refugees. During these calamitous times, they are among the more vulnerable. May Jesus, the Good Shepherd, continue to teach us to accompany them and all the Church with wisdom, mercy, and hope.
+Jaime SotoBishop of Sacramento
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A message from Fr. Tom
Blessings,
Fr. Tom Lucas S.J.
As I’ve been thinking about and preparing for our upcoming series on Catholic Social Teaching that starts this Sunday night at 6:45 pm in the Church and online, I’m both daunted by the size of the task we’ve undertaken, and challenged by contemporary tensions in our civil society and Church community.
Over the next eight months, we hope to open up discussions of important themes about our Church’s relationship to our world, and how the message of Jesus we preach could and should be echoed in the actions of a living community of faith. It won’t be an easy conversation, because these aren’t easy times. The themes are vast, complex, and nuanced, and it will take time and patience to tease them out. That’s particularly challenging in a culture where we expect instantaneous responses to every text, email, and tweet, and a simple binary yes/no, black /white, good/evil, praise/cancel response has come to be expected for just about every question.
For want of a better word, the Church is the oldest ongoing corporation in the western world; only the Chinese empire, down to its current sovereigns, is longer lived. A lot of history, both heroic and horrible is behind us. Rooted in the Incarnate Christ, sprouting from the tribal soil of our Hebrew ancestors who revered the Law and the Prophets, philosophically shaped by its early encounters with waning classical culture of Greece and Rome, and entangled in cultural issues from its origins, the Church as an institution has always been in crisis: in the world but not of the world, divinely inspired, we believe, but humanly—that is to say, fallibly—administered.
The challenge of living in an ongoing, evolving institution is real. We have much to repent for in our past and even in our recent present. To give but one troubling example: it took the Church a very, very long time to condemn slavery and racism, conditioned as it was by habitual thinking and stubborn prejudices against the “other,” be they of different creeds or races. Human institutions, even those divinely inspired in their beginnings, are slow to change. Ancient institutions even slower.
The wonder is, that change does happen. After resolutely turning its back on modern ideas of progress for centuries after religious, cultural, and scientific revolutions that began 500 years ago, in the late 19th century the creaking apparatus of the Church began to move slowly forward. Pope Leo
XIII’s pioneering encyclicals, the daring rapprochement with the world that began with Vatican II, and the growing recognition of an interdependent global community that recent popes have signaled are all signs of life and growth. And growth is always hard.
For many, the temptation to condemn any and all change is real: it’s easier to plod along in traditional ways, more secure, less threatening. Others hurl condemnations and anathemas at institutions that have not changed fast enough, or at those in the past who obviously weren’t a smart or virtuous as we are now. Yet the world and our Church are neither black nor white, nor even shades of gray, but are seen and lived in real color that is sometimes bright and even harsh, sometimes tender and consoling.
Dozing or woke, oblivious or obnoxious, are not ideal descriptors of those who claim to follow the teachings of Jesus with integrity and compassion. But that’s what we’re called to do: to follow Jesus, and act as he did, embracing the lost, healing the suffering, caring for one another and our home because that’s the right thing to do, not just to show others that we are right. It takes a lot of humility to follow Jesus, to ask forgiveness personally and corporately for our failings, to ask for mercy, healing, and hope. But I think that’s a good place to begin.
Pierre Montallier, The Corporal Works of Mercy, ca. 1680.
Back to Basics
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PRAYERS & EVENTS www.stignatiussac.org
This week, and always we remember
we hope we believe
Daily Mass IntentionsSeptember 20 - September 25 , 2021
9/20
9/21
9/22
9/23
9/24
9/25
Mon 8:00 am
Tues 8:00 amTues 5:30 pm Wed 8:00 amWed 5:30 pm
Thur 8:00 amThur 5:30 pm
Fri 8:00 amFri 5:30 pm
Sat 8:00 am
Jim Mooney †
Eva Anchors †Michael Gilles †
Lloyd and Mary Palm †Special Intention
Lino David Conti Sr. †Special Intention
Jordan Anthony Parreira †Rachel Campbell †
Ryan Hamilton †
PLEASE PRAY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE DIEDDeacon Joe Symkowick, Angie Tonarelli, William
Whalen, Margaret Whalen, Ruthven Joseph, Luz de Leon, Roberto Dominguez, Gail Swanson,
Bob Slakey Sr.
PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SICKSeptember 2021
Mark Tonarelli, Frances Starling, Rick Mocerin, Lynn McDaniel, Mario Rodrigues, Aristides
Merida, Sr., Rose DeHerrera
August 2021Cathy Edwards, Kaitlyn Baxter, Kaitlyn Harston,
Trudy Vantress Waggoner, Rosa Castaños, Michael Abdollahzadeh, Nathaniel Rivera,
July 2021Jeanne Campanelli, Fr. David Ayotte,
Dee O’Malley, Rick Clark, Mary Ellen Lucero
WEEKEND PRESIDERS
5:30 (SAT):7:30:9:30:11:30:5:30 (SUN):
Sep 25/26 Oct 2/3
Fr. Wehr, S.J.Fr. Lucas, S.J.Fr. Wehr, S.J.Fr. Tilley, S.J.Fr. Wehr, S.J.
Fr. Tilley, S.J.Fr. Lucas, S.J.Fr. O’Niell, S.J.Fr. Tilley, S.J.Fr. Lucas, S.J.
Stay Tuned:Our first presentation in our series on Catholic Social Teaching will take place Sunday September 19th, at 6:45 pm in St. Ignatius Church. All are welcome to attend, and this and all other presentations will also be livestreamed (and archived) on Facebook and on our webpage. Fr. Tom Lucas S.J. and Mr. Lucas Sharma S.J. from the Jesuit School of Theology will introduce the series with “A Brief History of Catholic Social Teaching.” The presentation will be about 45 minutes long, with time for some questions and discussion afterwards.
The Parish Pastoral Council of St. Ignatius is launching a parish-wide survey during the weekend masses on Sept. 25th-26th. It will continue to be available through October 10th. This is an opportunity for you to give feedback on our parish and activities, especially as we get into a new COVID normal. The survey will be administered online, however, we will also make hard copies available in the vestibule for those who have challenges with technology access/use, or simply prefer that medium. We appreciate your participation in this important effort. Let us help each other make our parish community a nurturing place for everyone.
Parish-Wide Survey
Magis Dinner:
After careful consideration, the parish leadership has decided to postpone our 2021 Magis Dinner until April 30, 2022. The diocese has recently curtailed several large group gatherings over the next few months due to COVID-19 variants and the continuing high rates of infection. In an abundance of caution, it seems prudent for us to delay a large indoor meal and gathering until the conditions improve significantly. Our honorees, the Russell and Legrand families, will be recognized and receive their awards at a Sunday mass in November.
PARISH EVENTS
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PARISH EVENTS
St. Vincent de Paul at St. Ignatius Update
Support for our Neighbors during the months of July and August 2021
Number of Neighbors Contacted: 50
Total financial support provided for our Neighbors: $2,578
Rent assistance $400 Utility assistance $315 Bedding and furniture $968 Clothing for neighbors $300
Throughout this COVID-19 era, St. Ignatius Loyola Parish staff has adapted to new norms and guidelines. Alan Nissila is our Liturgy Director, and he has continuously shown us how to move forward during this challenging time of COVID-19. Alan’s core responsibilities here at the parish include: scheduling and working with volunteers, preparing the clergy schedule, planning liturgies, helping out with our weekly live streams, and occasionally being a part of the music ministry, along with being the supervisor of sacristans. He is also in charge of the church environment.
Alan grew up in Portland, Oregon, and has been a musician since high school. Before Fr. Gerry Robinson, S.J. invited Alan to be a part of our St. Ignatius Loyola Parish family, he served as the Music Director at St. Philomene’s Catholic Church. He has been a part of this staff since 2002 and became our liturgist in 2015. He says his favorite part about this parish is ‘‘the people here and how they are committed and happy to help one another.’’
Alan enjoys day trips to Apple Hill, Nevada City, and Grass Valley in his free time. He also enjoys cycling and hiking in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Thank you, Alan, for all that you do for us! We are incredibly grateful for all of Alan’s hard-working during this very stressful time of COVID-19. He is one of many dedicated people who conribute to the vitality of our parish.
Meet & Greet: Alan Nissila, Liturgy Director
Our St. Vincent de Paul Conference is presently exploring ways we can collaborate with local agencies and partners to support Afghani refugees who are arriving
in the Sacramento and Arden-Arcade area. We will report back to the parish on progress as it happens.
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PARISH EVENTS www.stignatiussac.org
Catholic Social Teaching Course at St. Ignatius Loyola Parish
Sunday Sept. 19, 2021Session 1: A very brief history of Catholic Social TeachingFr. Tom Lucas S.J. Pastor, St. Ignatius ChurchLucas Sharma S.J., Deacon Candidate, Jesuit School of Theology at SCU
Sunday, October 3, 2021Session 2: Life and the Dignity of the Human Person. Human Anthropology and the Seamless Garment. Lucas Sharma S.J., Deacon Candidate, Jesuit School of Theology at SCU
Sunday, November 7, 2021Session 3: The Dignity of Work and Worker’s RightsDeacon Matthew Yim S.J., Jesuit School of Theology at SCU
Sunday December 5, 2021Session 4: The Option for the Poor: Who are the poor among us? Racism in AmericaFr. Bart Landry, CSP, Coordinator, Black Catholic Ministry, Diocese of Sacramento
Sunday January 9, 2022Session 5: Solidarity and Migration in a world of XenophobiaFr. Chris Calderón, S.J. Dean of Students and Justine Javier, Director Campus Ministry, Cristo Rey High School.
Sunday February 6, 2022Session 6: Homelessness and Urban Poverty: Rights and ResponsibilitiesAngela Hassel, Executive Director Sacramento Loaves and Fishes
Sunday, March 6, 2022Session 7: Discernment and Forming Persons for Others at School and ChurchAnnie Crew-Renzo, Assistant Principal for Mission and Vision, Theology Chair, Jesuit High Sacramento.
Sunday April 3, 2022Session 8: Care for God’s Creation: Ecological Justice and Laudato SiSara Brabec, Director of Service and Justice, Jesuit High, Sacramento
All dates are subject to change, but all presentations (approximately 45 minutes) will take place in St. Ignatius Church on Sunday evenings at 6:45 pm, and will be followed by informal conversation.
“Dreaming as fellow travelers, as a single family”
https://youtu.be/iBJ1BhBszE4
The Coalition for Racial Equity (CFRE) invites you to celebrate the feast day of San Lo-renzo Ruiz on Tuesday, September 28 at the 5:30pm Mass. The Feast of San Lorenzo is an occasion to celebrate his commitment to his Catholic faith that led to his martyr-dom. Our St. Ignatius family joins the Filipino community in admiring the steadfastness of faith and strength San
Lorenzo Ruiz manifested until his death, memorialized by his final words, “If I have a thousand lives, I will offer it all to Him”.
To read more about this very inspiring saint, copy this link into your browser which will take you to the CFRE page of the St Ignatius website:
https://www.stignatiussac.org/s/si-coalition-for-racial-equity
“Makisama sa ating pagdiriwang!”( Join us in our celebration!)
Feast of San Lorenzo
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