SOLEMNITY OF ST. MARGARET MARY ALACOQUE Saturday / Sunday October 21 & 22, 2017

MASS INTENTIONS Sat. Oct. 21-5pm: Bruce Del Fante Sun. Oct. 22-7am: 8:30am: James Brady (birthday) 10:30am: †Bruns Grayson 12:30pm: Pro populo Mon. Oct. 23-8am: Evelyn Day (birthday) 6pm: †Ida & Henry Calliot Tues. Oct. 24-8am: Mary Durkin 6pm: Can. Raphel Ueda & Family, †Anthony Osamu Ueda Wed. Oct. 25-8am: Mary Durkin 6pm: †Dr. Bob Dai Nguyen

Thu. Oct. 26-8am: The Souls in Purgatory 12pm: Irene Larrabee & Family Fri. Oct. 27-8am: †Elisa & Giovanni Mancarti 6pm: Msg. Guadalupe Alderte Sat. Oct. 28-8am: †James Gilheany, Sr. 10am: †Karol Roberts 5pm: †Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro

The Patience of Our Lord Jesus is the model of patience we should imi-tate. He lived this virtue throughout his life. But espe-cially during his passion and death, our Lord gave us an example of patience, of being fully identified with the Will of the Father. *** Jesus did not find things easy. He did not find a ready audience. Crowds came to hear him, but, as he affirms, “Though seeing, they do not see; though hear-ing, they do not hear or understand” (Mt 13:13). Nev-ertheless, he continued his task, preaching to all in Pal-estine. The Twelve Apostles had been for some time with the Master, yet until the end, they did not fully grasp his message. The gospel shows us time and again how patient Jesus was with them. Though he knew their weaknesses and defects, he did not order but simply asked them to follow him. Being almighty, he could have filled them with holiness and virtues in a wink of an eye, effortlessly. Instead, he formed them little by little, step by step. He corrected them. He in-structed them. He allowed time to make them suitable for the mission he would give them. “Finally, after go-ing up to heaven, he sent them the Holy Spirit to com-plete his work. Jesus lived patience and endurance in adversity while his enemies mocked him, scorned him, spat upon him, struck him, buffeted him with open hands, scourged him, crowned him with thorns, and put a bright robe on him as if he were a tinsel king. In fact, a thief, Barabbas, was preferred to Jesus. Our Lord accepted God’s Will, and on the Cross suffered blasphemies and scorn: “If you are the Son of God, come down!” He could have commanded the earth to open up and swallow his tormentors, but he remained silent and accepted the horrible human fail-ure. Jesus is patient in the Eucharist. He is at the will of the ministers, exposed, enclosed, visited, and forsaken. Jesus’ divine and human natures remain hidden in the Eucharist: In cruce latebat sola deitas (“Only his divine nature was hidden on the Cross”), here even his human nature is unseen. Jesus allows himself to be subject to our lack of refinement, to outrages, to sacrilege, and to appalling profanations. (From Patience: The Path to Victory by Charles Bel-monte)

There are Masses open for intentions in January 2018.

Please keep in your prayers….Fr. Stan Zak, Fr. Bill Marshall; Mary Walker; Alex Porcuna; Lewis Mullen; Carmel Mahoney; Nancy Duenas; Vic and Nancy Miloslavich; Kathryn Rieger; Judy & Louis Delligatti; Rose Bloom; Stella Lurton; Sue Weber; Laura Montgomery; Sara Zendejas; Rosaline White; Josephine Palacios; Francis Martinez, Mike Rodri-guez; Paul Ehrfurth; John Ehrfurth; Anaidel Pere-zarevalo; Janice Siliger; Robert Martinez, Laverne Seliger; Eddie Martinez; Sylvester Bell, Keith Borchers; Arthur Connick; Theresa Kunihira, Lianne Claver, Paul Oei, Mike Bozzardi, Betty Garland, John Benish, Diane Kasdan, Michael Quinones, Marc Wyborny.

In memoriam: †Yolanda Cattoche, †Brad O’Leary, †Titus Ekanem, †Cornelius McCauley, †Jeffrey Garland, †Myrna Lanzar, †Barbara Shadix, †Bridget Connolly, †Virgil Garcia, †Wanda Krawczyk, †Bill Leitao, †Michael Smith Requiescant in pace.

Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest

Rev. Canon Olivier Meney Episcopal Delegate for the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite in the Diocese of Oakland

Canon Meney - (510) 604-0391 or canon.meney@institute-christ-king.org

YOU ARE AT SAINT MARGARET MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH HUB OF THE LATIN MASS LITURGY IN OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA

The Traditional Latin Mass (now called by the Holy Father: Mass in the Extraordinary Form) is brought to you through the ministry of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest.

WHAT IS THE INSTITUTE OF CHRIST THE KING SOVEREIGN PRIEST?

The Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest is a Society of Apostolic Life of Pontifical Right whose goal is the honor of God and the sanctification of priests in the ser-vice of the Church and souls. Its specific aim is missionary: to spread the reign of our Lord Jesus Christ in all spheres of human life. Our work is carried out under the patronage of the Immaculate Conception, to Whom the Institute is consecrated.

Recognizing the importance of a deep harmony between faith, liturgy, life, and the power of beauty in attracting the human senses to the things above, an integral part of the Institute’s charism is the use of the traditional Latin Liturgy of 1962 for the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and the other sacraments. Great care for a solemn liturgy, complete fidelity to the doctrine of the Church and the Holy Father, and awareness of the central role of Grace, especially Charity – these are essential elements of the Institute’s spirituality, which is drawn from its three co-patrons, St. Benedict, St. Thomas Aquinas, and St. Francis de Sales.

Our motto is “Live the truth in charity." The Institute operates in more than fifty places in twelve countries, where our priests focus on the care of souls in many different ways. To assist our priests in their apostolic work, the Institute also has clerical oblates. In 2004, a community of religious sisters was canonically established to aid the priests in their mis-sion through prayer and apostolic work.

The Institute was founded in 1990 by Monsignor Gilles Wach. Today, the motherhouse and international seminary of the Institute is located in Gricigliano, in the Archdiocese of Florence, Italy.

The Institute serves the faithful of the Bay since 2005 at St. Margaret Mary in Oakland and at Five Wounds in San Jose (Mass at 12:30 pm on Sunday, 12:15 pm on Weekdays but Sat. at 7:30 am)

TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS SCHEDULE

Monday - Wednesday, Low Mass at 6:00 PM Thursday, Low Mass at 12:00 PM (Noon) Friday, Low Mass at 6:00PM Saturday, Low Mass at 10:00 AM Sunday, Low Mass at 7:00 AM High Mass at 12:30 PM Reception Every Sunday after 12:30 PM Mass Feast Days Mass at 6:00 PM

Please refer to the Institute’s online bulletin for updates

CONFESSIONS Confessions are offered half hour before daily

Masses, during Sunday Mass, and upon request for those who cannot make it to confession on the

above mentioned schedules.

Homebound Visits, House Blessings, Spiritual Direction

Do not hesitate to call Canon Meney to have a visit or the blessed Sacrament brought to your beloved

ones. Cell phone number is (510) 604-0391 Spiritual direction is available upon request.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: (continued): please send us the forms available in the vestibule. The Novena Masses will be held on the following dates/times: Nov. 2 (8am), Nov. 3 (8am), Nov. 4 (8am), Nov. 5 (10:30am), Nov. 6 (6pm), Nov. 7 (8am), Nov. 8 (6pm), Nov. 9 (8am), Nov. 10 (6pm). The stipend raised will be applied to the Parish’s Candle Fund. ● The schedule of Masses for the Solemnity of All Saints (Nov. 1st, Wednesday) which is a holy day of obligation is as follows: 6.30am Extraordinary Form); 8am (Ordinary Form); 12.10pm (Latin in the Ordinary Form); 6pm (Extraordinary Form). ● All are welcome to our annual All Saints’ Party, on Saturday, Nov. 4, beginning at 1pm. This annual event will begin with the procession of "Saints", who will be singing the Litany of the Saints from the parish courtyard to Kozina Hall. Once there, the children will parade across the stage in their cos-tumes, briefly sharing their knowledge of their saint. At that time, their costumes will be evaluated by age group and gender. Each family, couple, or individual is encouraged to bring drinks and finger food (e.g. veggie/fruit tray, chips and dip, egg rolls, deviled eggs, meatballs, etc), drinks and dessert

ANNOUNCEMENTS: If you would like your loved-ones to be in-cluded among the souls we will pray for during the Parish’s annual Novena of Masses for all souls,

MESSAGE FROM FR. GLENN NAGUIT: At all Masses this weekend we commemorate our patron saint, St. Margaret Mary. Happy feast-day to all! * I’d like to share with you a letter I received from Bishop Barber dated September 26, 2017: “On behalf of everyone here at the Diocese, I would like to express my deep gratitude for you and your staff’s tremendous efforts in this year’s Bish-op’s Appeal! I am overjoyed to see your efforts re-sult in raising $19,040 and reaching 103% of your goal. I know it can be difficult to continuously ask your parishioners for money, which is why I am so appreciative of your efforts and support of the Ap-peal. “Please convey my gratitude to your parish-ioners who have so generously supported our Dio-cese through the Appeal. May God continue to bless you, your parish, and all those you faithfully service. “Fraternally yours in Christ, “Michael Barber, SJ.” It is because of your generosity that our Par-ish again has reached its goal. And so I echo the Bishop’s words of gratitude: Many thanks for con-tinuing to support our Bishop! * To our parishioners who had been using ParishPay: the transition has been completed. Your information has been securely transferred to WeShare—the online-giving platform from Liturgi-cal Publications which recently purchased ParishPay. Your recurring donations continue as scheduled. Former ParishPay users may access their ac-count by logging in at https://www.churchgiving.com/?pc=yyjmtd79. This web address is also in our new website at https://stmargaretmaryoak.org. You will need your ParishPay ID to verify. If you no longer remember this ID, please contact WeShare's customer support at (800) 950-9952 (option 1). I’d like to encourage more of our parishioners to use this nifty online plat-form to continue to support St. Margaret Mary. New users may also use the web address above to begin. Thanks!

ANNOUNCEMENTS (continued) (cookies, brownies, rice crispy treats, etc) to share. Please contact Mary Sullivan in order to: RSVP, help, and host a game. She can be reached at 510-701-7611 or jacksullivan55@sbcglobal.net This event is sponsored by East Bay TORCH and St. Margaret Mary. ● St. Vincent de Paul request: One of our par-ish families is facing large medical bills due to emer-gency medical treatment not covered by insurance. Our St. Vincent de Paul conference asks for your sup-port for this family. You may assist them financially by making a check out to "St. Margaret Mary Parish" with a notation - SVdP - medical support. Please put the check in any collection basket or mail it to the par-ish office. Thank you for your consideration. ● St. Margaret Mary’s is looking for 2 women to assist in the care of the altar linens. Please contact Lori Libby lorilibby@earthlink.net ● Baptism classes are required for first babies or new parishioners, and should be scheduled before the arrival of the baby if possible. Baptism preparation classes are offered quarterly, unless there is an emer-gency regarding the health of the baby. ● The Parish Library will be open on Novem-ber 11, after the vigil Mass and on November 12 after all the Masses (2nd Sunday of the month). You’re in-vited to come down to the stage in the Fr. Kozina Hall Need more info? Please contact Lily Mullen at (925)827-1946 or lily.mullen@gmail.com. ● We are still in need of volunteers to prepare and serve lunch for the monthly Holy Hour For Priests. We need volunteers for the months of Janu-ary, March, April and May. The Holy Hour is held on the 3rd Fridays eve-ry month. It’s ideal if 2-3 people work together. Get some friends and/or family and share the tasks, or Lily Mullen can find others for you to work with. There are usually 8-12 priests from the Diocese who attend. The simple meatless meal can be prepared in the hall’s kitchen or at home and brought in; then served. You are not expected to entertain or mingle, just set up, have the meal ready at noon, serve it and clean up when they are done usually by 1 pm. Please contact Lily Mullen at (925) 827-1946 or lily.mullen@gmail.com for more information, or to put your name on the schedule. Thank you. ●

The Role of Children From the day when the Son of God became a child, there has been an intimate bond between Christiani-ty and the family. Bethlehem was a kind of earthly Trinity. It placed primacy at a point never before seen in history. Up until that first Christmas, the hierarchy had been father, mother, and child. Now it was turned backwards, and be-came child, mother, and father. For centuries humans looked up to the heavens and said: "God is away up there." But when the mother held the Child in her arms, it could be truly said that she looked down to Heaven. Now God was "way down here" in the dust of human lives. Did Mary have other children than Our Lord? No! Not of the flesh. The word "Brethren," applied to Our Lord in Scrip-ture, refers to all kinds of relatives. It no more implies that He had blood brothers than a preacher, addressing his congregation as "My Dear Brethren," implies that he and the congregation have the same parents. But Our Blessed Mother did have other children according to the spirit. Our Lord was her "first-born"; what St. Paul calls "the first-born of creatures." As in the stable she became the Mother of God, so at the Cross she became the Mother of men. When her Divine Son spoke to her calling her the Univer-sal Mother, or "Woman," and telling her that John was her new "son," she entered into a new relation with mankind. Our Lord did not here call John by name. If He had, John would have been only the son of Zebedee and no one else. In virtue of his anonymity, he stood for all of us to whom Our Lord was saying: "Behold thy mother." It was a poor exchange for Mary. She was giving up the Son of God to get the children of men, but really, it was to gain a larger family in her Son. At that moment, Mary suffered the pangs of childbirth for all the children who would be born to her until the angel of doom comes. She brought forth Jesus in joy; us in labor, and in such agony that the Church has called her "Queen of Martyrs." In Mary's Child all children are found; in her motherhood all women are mothers; and through her, as Gate of Heaven, all men see the Ancient of the Days grown young. Of that beautiful relationship of Mother and Child, Chesterton writes: Or risen from play at your pale raiment's hem God, grown adventurous from all times repose, Of your tall body climbed the Ivory Tower And kissed upon your mouth the Mystic Rose. Since in her Child through the flesh at Bethlehem Mary had many children through the spirit, at Calvary the word child has a collective meaning and refers here not to an unique offspring, but to the fruit of love as God be-stows it. One of the greatest mistakes that couples make is to think that their love will endure because it is strong. Rather, love continues not because of its strength, but be-cause it is related to the power of self-renewal. (From Three To Get Married by Fulton Sheen)

MUSIC Organ: Prelude in C Minor, Mendelssohn Hymns: Entrance #610 On This Day the First of Days; Salve Regina 5pm (Sat.) Mass of Christian Unity, Vermulst 8:30am: Missa Jubilate Deo #50 Gloria #17 10:30am: Gregorian Mass IV Organ Postlude: Fugue in C Minor, Mendelssohn

ANNOUNCEMENTS (continued)

Dear Volunteers at St. Margaret Mary Parish, our parish is currently updating the volunteer list for all ministries at St. Margaret Mary Church for the 2017-2018 Diocesan Cycle for Safe Environment

Training. All training is now online for volunteers

and employees of St. Margaret Mary Church. Re-

training is mandatory every three years according to the Diocesan SE retraining calendar.

The Safe Environment training is mandated for ALL volunteers, and is accomplished through www.virusonline.org. You do NOT have to finish

the course in one sitting. You may leave and return at any time to continue where you left off. It takes about 60 – 90 minutes total. Please make sure to

print out a certificate and return to the parish office. Those that volunteer with children/youth will

need to take a Live Scan. For information about

LiveScan, accessing the site, and about the Safe En-vironment Program, please contact Valerie at stmmworks@ymail.com Thank you in advance for

all you do for St. Margaret Mary Church.

● 2017 Bishop’s Appeal Update: As of today we have raised $20,220 which is 109% of our goal. Congratulations and thanks! Remaining second col-lection is Nov. 12.

The Formation of Apostles No special preparation is necessary before giv-ing oneself to the interior apostolate, for, if a soul ded-icates itself to prayer and sacrifice, not only will it help others, but at the same time it will draw great profit for its own sanctification. In fact, the practice of the interior apostolate coincides perfectly with the fundamental exercise of the spiritual life. However, the same cannot be said of the external apostolate which, by its very nature, involves cares and occupa-tions beyond those required for one’s personal pro-gress. One who is just setting out in the spiritual life is not capable of attending to his own sanctification and the sanctification of others simultaneously; he should first have time to concentrate all his powers on his own spiritual formation. Furthermore, since the effectiveness of the apostolate corresponds to the de-gree of love and union with God which the apostle has attained, it is evident that a beginner will not be capa-ble of exercising a very fruitful apostolate. Hence, if he engages in the active apostolate prematurely, he will dissipate his energy uselessly, with the conse-quent harm to his own interior life and to the fruitful-ness of his apostolate. Jesus Himself spent thirty years in prayer and retirement although, being God, he had no need to do so. It was as if He wanted to show us that before we plunge into the work of the exterior apostolate, we must have reached a certain spiritual maturity by the exercise of the interior life. He treated the Apostles in a similar way: the three years they spent with Jesus were years of true formation for them. Our Lord in-structed and admonished them, taught them how to pray and to practice virtue. Only occasionally, and then with precaution, did he entrust some mission to them, in order to given them experience. Finally, be-fore He sent them out to conquer the world, He wished to strengthen their spirit by nourishing them with His Body, calling them to witness His Passion, and reuniting them in the Cenacle to await the coming of the Holy Spirit. Thus true Catholic tradition de-mands that, before apostles go out into the field of battle, they must prepare themselves by the practice of an intense interior life, which will make them quali-fied, fruitful instruments for the good of souls. The great necessity for apostolic works, which is growing in urgency today, cannot justify a hasty preparation for the apostolate…..Enthusiasm and goodwill are not enough. A vigorous interior life, ma-turity of thought and judgment and a spirit of sacrifice and union with God are also necessary. (From Divine Intimacy by Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene, OCD)

Weekly update Oct. 7 & 8 Year-to-Date

Actual - 1st Plate $4,831 $219,788

Parish Pay 1st Plate

$1,160 $69,155

Total 1st Plate $5,991 $288,943

Goal $6,400 $262,400

Variance (-$409) $26,543

This weekend’s second collection is for the World Mission & Home Missions. The previous collection for the Bishop’s Appeal totaled $1,051. Next weekend’s 2nd collection is for the St. Vincent de Paul. Thanks!

THE HOLY SACRIFICE OF THE MASS

AGNUS DEI & PAX TECUM

The blood of the Passover Lamb saved the Israelites from the Angel of Death who was passing through the land of Egypt, striking down the first born. Now, in the New Covenant, the blood of the Lamb (Christ) saves us from the death of sin; giving us the grace which is the food of our souls. The ruler of the Earth is on the altar. He has come back once more to be mystically slain, in order to expiate our sins, and draw us to His sacred heart. Consider the anticipation with which our Lord had looked forward to eat His Last Supper! This Passover meal would mark the birth of the Mass and of the Priesthood—those means by which the merits of His sacrifice the next day could be applied to our souls. Thousands of years of waiting were about to end, and a New Covenant was about to begin. And, consider what fear the Apostles felt in the first Mass (Matt. XXVI, 20-22; John XIII, 22). It was a wholesome fear, and should be present in all of us as a necessity for proper reception of the Eucharist. Up to now, the prayers of the Mass have been ad-dressed to God the Father, or to the Trinity. Now the priest, at the Agnus Dei, “Lamb of God,” addresses Christ himself, the Sacrificial Lamb: “The Lamb that was slain is worthy to receive power, and divinity, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and benediction,” Apoc. 5:11-12. In the Agnus Dei, we are asking our Lord to forgive us for three kinds of sins; those of thought, word, and deed. In Masses for the dead the phrase Miserere nobis is replaced with Dona eis requiem, and the phrase “Dona Nobis Pacem” is replaced with “Dona eis sempiternam requiem. Having prayed for the fruit of peace, in Solemn Masses the priest begins by kissing the altar close to where the Host lies. Thus when he offers this same kiss of peace to the Deacon, he is offering the peace that comes from our Lord Himself, through the sacri-fice of the Eucharist, when he says the Pax Tecum. The Domine Jesu Christe that follows asks our Lord for three specific gifts from the partaking of His Body: (1) That we may be freed from our sins; (2) That we may always follow His commandments; and (3) That He will never permit us to be separated from Him.

OUR OAKLAND APOSTOLATE IS IN NEED OF YOUR SUPPORT!

Please donate to the Institute for our Apostolate. You can go to the Institute’s website at www.institute-christ-king.org and click on “St. Margaret Mary Oakland, CA,” then click on “Donate.”

You can also give your donation to Canon Meney. Checks payable to Institute of Christ the King. Envelopes are provided in the back of the church.

Many thanks for your support.

INSTITUTE OF CHRIST THE KING SOVEREIGN PRIEST

DIOCESAN APPROVED TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS APOSTOLATE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MOTU PROPRIO, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM

IN THE DIOCESE OF OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA

OCTOBER 22, 2017