Established 1951
St. Veronica Church
October 29, 2017
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Fax: 650-588-1481 Phone: 650-588-1455 www.stveronicassf.com
434 Alida Way South San Francisco, CA 94080
A Stewardship Parish - Grateful Living through Faith, Fellowship, Service, & Giving
“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” - Matthew 22:36
Parish Office email: [email protected]
St. Veronica Parish Parish Office Hours
Monday to Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Closed for lunch from 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. (unless otherwise posted)
Phone: 650-588-1455 Fax: 650-588-1481
Parish Staff
Fr. Charles Puthota, Ph.D., Pastor Fr. Tom Martin, Administrator Fr. Patrick Driscoll, Parochial Vicar
Fr. Don Sharp, S.J., Weekend Assistant
Deacon Roger Beaudry Deacon Joseph LeBlanc Patricia Spiteri, Parish Secretary, Ext. 301 Oneyda Perez, Parish Bookkeeper, Ext. 304
Karen Guglielmoni, Faith Formation & Wedding Coordinator, Ext.305
Christopher Lindstrom, Music Director, Ext. 308
Jim Rodriguez, Custodian/Maintenance
St. Veronica Catholic School
www.saintveronicassf.org Phone: 650-589-3909
Mrs. Mary Boland Principal
SACRAMENTAL PREPARATION
Sacrament of Baptism Baptisms are to be arranged through the Parish Office.
Baptisms in English are typically held on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month.
Baptisms in Spanish are typically held on the 2nd Saturday of each month.
Baptismal Preparation classes are held once a month. Call the Parish Office at 650-588-1455
Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA) Call the Parish Office to register 650-588-1455 Ext.309
Faith Formation: 650-588-1455 Ext. 305 Catechetical instructions (1st to 8th grades)
Confirmation Classes: 650-588-1455
Mass Intentions for the Week of October 29, 2017
Sun 10/29 7:00 † Hermelinda & Juan Navario 8:30 † Isabel Massucco 10:00 † Zachariah Jacob 11:30 † Anita & James Cornett 6:00 † Violeta Stelmak
Mon 10/30 6:30 Mary & Jim Sarantopulos 8:30 † Evelyn Casagrande
Tue 10/31 6:30 † Patricia Cavagnaro 8:30 † Bill Medeghini
Wed 11/01 6:30 † Legion of Mary Deceased 8:30 † Dean Allen Drablos 6:30 † Anne Messini
Thu 11/02 6:30 † John Murphy 8:30 † All Souls
Fri 11/03 6:30 † Patricia Cavagnaro 8:30 † All Souls
Sat 11/04 8:30 † All Souls 5:00 † Gianfranco Andreazzi
Sun 11/05 7:00 † All Souls 8:30 † Anthony De Sousa 10:00 † Mary Ghiorso 11:30 † Steve Vina 6:00 † Jesus & Virginia Gonzalez
St. Veronica Parish Mission Statement
St. Veronica Church is a multicultural community of believers who treasure Jesus Christ at the center of their profession of faith & practice. They worship & work to-gether to build up a community of family & friends according to the mind & heart of Christ. Out of the abundance of joy & grati-tude, they live & share the good news of faith & hope, striving to stand up for peace & justice, to spread love & compassion, to care for those who are in need, and to make our nation & the world a better place for all.
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Mass Schedule
Saturdays: 8:30 a.m. & 5:00 p.m. Sundays: 7:00, 8:30, 10:00, and 11:30 a.m.
Spanish Mass: Sundays at 6:00 p.m. Holy Days: 6:30, 8:30 a.m., 6:30 p.m. (English)
Monday - Friday: 6:30 & 8:30 a.m.
Confessions Saturdays: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Liturgy of the Hours Monday - Friday: Morning Prayer at 6:00 a.m.
Eucharistic Adoration 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Monday - Friday
except as posted for holidays and parish events
ON THE HORIZON
Wed., Nov. 1: All Saints Day, a Holy Day of Obligation (see Mass schedule below)
Thurs., Nov. 2: All Souls Day (see below) Sun., Nov. 5: Daylight Saving Time ends; set
your clocks BACK one hour Saturday night Sun., Nov. 5: 3rd Grade Class Mass, 10:00 a.m. Sat., Nov. 18: YMI Grand Council Pasta Bingo
Dinner in Falcon Hall (see details in bulletin)
Envelopes received in the First Collection:
October 7 & 8: 332 October 14 & 15: 359 October 21 & 22: 324
If you currently receive envelopes but do not use them, please prayerfully consider including your donation in the collection basket.
Saturday 10/21/17 5:00PM 1501.50 532.00 2033.50
Sunday 10/22/17 7:00AM 1211.00 761.00 1972.00
8:30AM 1301.00 573.00 1874.00
10:00AM 1866.00 747.00 2613.00
11:30AM 1157.00 508.00 1665.00
Spanish Mass 6:00PM 357.00 194.00 551.00
TOTAL IN-PEW DONATIONS: $7,393.50 $3,315.00 $10,708.50
Other Contributions n/a n/a n/a
Thank you for supporting St. Veronica Parish and its works.
Day Mass Time 1st Collection World Mission Sunday Totals
All Saints Day Mass Schedule
Wednesday, November 1st, is the Solemnity of All Saints, and a Holy Day of Obligation. The regular morning Masses will be at 6:30 and 8:30 a.m. with additional Masses at 6:30 p.m. in English and 7:30 p.m. in Spanish.
All Souls Day Mass of Remembrance
All Are Invited!
St. Veronica will celebrate its annual Mass of Remembrance, sponsored by the parish Be-reavement Support Ministry, at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 2nd. All are invited to join in the Mass and remember their de-ceased friends and family members. A recep-tion will follow in the Parish Center.
From the Desk of Fr. Tom Dear Brothers and Sisters:
We have often heard the phrase, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” In today’s readings, particularly from the Book of Exodus and Matthew’s Gospel, we are called to “love one another as God has loved us.” In a beauti-ful way, Exodus expresses the history of salvation of the Jew-ish people, reflecting their own experience of exile and slav-ery to freedom. The Lord reminds them to treat others with the dignity and respect they inherently deserve for no other reason than because they are daughters and sons of God. Care is to be given especially to those who are most vulnerable and marginalized: the widow, the orphan, and the poor. God rouses the memory of his Chosen People to remember that although he has delivered them from captivity, they were once strangers in a foreign land. We have all perhaps had times where we felt as the alien, separated by circumstance, from others. Remembering God’s faithfulness and steadfast love for us is the foundation, the seedlings of mercy and compas-sion for others.
In what can seem to be complicated times, Matthew brings us back to the fundamental call we each possess as Christians. While the chief priests and Scribes, the Herodians and Phari-sees are trying yet again to trap Jesus, he confounds even the scholar of the law! The greatest commandment of the law is to love God with everything we possess. This is the supreme love which informs all others. Second to that is to love others as we love ourselves. It is through God’s grace and the gift of the Holy Spirit that we aspire, day by day, to love others as we ought to love ourselves.
Today the Church in the United States celebrates “Priesthood Sunday.” Established in 2003 by Serra International, a won-derful organization whose mission is the promotion and sup-port of priestly vocations, this day recognizes the service of priests. In reflecting upon the connectedness of our shared service as priests and lay faithful, here are some words of Pope Francis’ Chrism Mass homily delivered in Rome in 2013.
“Dear lay faithful, be close to your priests with affection and with your prayers, that they may always be shepherds accord-ing to God’s heart.
“Dear priests, may God the Father renew in us the Spirit of holiness with whom we have been anointed. May he renew his Spirit in our hearts, that this anointing may spread to eve-ryone, even to those “outskirts” where our faithful people most look for it and appreciate it. May our people sense that we are the Lord’s disciples; may they feel that their names are written upon our priestly vestments and that we seek no other identity; and may they receive through our words and deeds the oil of gladness which Jesus, the Anointed One, came to bring us. Amen.” - Fr. Tom
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YMI Pasta Bingo Dinner
St. Veronica’s Falcon Hall (cafeteria) will be the site for the Saturday, November 18th Young Men’s Institute Pasta Bingo Dinner. Cocktails begin at 6:00 p.m. with dinner served at 7:00 p.m. followed by Bingo and a Raffle.
The $25.00 per adult cost covers dinner and two bingo cards. Children age 13 and under are wel-come to attend the dinner for $12.00 per person.
Reservation flyers are available at the Pastoral Center (parish office). For further information, contact Br. Mike Dimech at 650-922-2667 or [email protected].
RSVP with payment by No-vember 14th. Please make checks payable to YMI Grand Council and return to YMI c/o Br. Mike Dimech, P.O. Box #281047, San Fran-cisco, CA 94128.
It is with great joy that we welcome into our church and community the following children who received the Sacrament of Baptism at our Church
on Saturday, October 21, 2017
Elijah Evilla Isaac Andres Raygoza
Alivia Tevis
M. Roberto Aceituno Donna Allard Alex Alvarado Phyllis Arditi Angel Arriada Natividad Balis Marilina Bioc David Burns
Lillian Julia Calonge Annette Campbell
Estela Campos Vincent Cardarelli Patricia Cavagnaro
Arlene Ann Cavallero Lyla Chamorro
Aida Cocjin Anita Marie Cornett
Edward Corrigan Paul Dubrovich Nelita Dumawal
Emilio Firpo Elsa Fornesi
Virgilio Francisco Horace Galdamez
Amanda Glass John Guaraglia Thomas Hevey
Robert Michael Jimenez Nancy Jones Evelyn Joya
Beverly Jane Kellner Grace Levario Eileen Looney
Margy Loughran
Joseph Lyons Carmen Madriz
Bruna Maffei Theresa Mainini
Nancy Jane McDonald Lena McDonough
Rita McMahon William Medeghini
José Mora Sr. Theresa Mullin Albert Nogare
Mildred Nogare Roma O’Keefe Frank Olari Jr.
Josephine Pantaleoni Leroy Pappas Frank Pignati
Leo Quini Federico Deleon Revilla
Joanne Ryan José Salgado
Robert San Miguel Rose San Miguel Love
Felix Sillona Marcelina Manlongat Soy
Henry St. Onge Pacita St. Onge
Thomas Teshara Constance Van Perre
Lenore Verducci Agnes Vignolo Toni Vincenzi Janet Walsh Uwe Zinck
In Remembrance of our Dearly Departed
Reflecting on the Word
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time The poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning asks, “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” Je-sus is asked which commandment is the greatest. To love God with all you have and are and to love your neighbor as yourself, he answers. How do we love God? Love your neighbor. How do we love our neighbor? Love yourself with a healthy self-love. We need to ask, who is my neighbor? The book of Exodus answers this question. All people are your neighbors, including those most in need, those alien to you or your country; widows, who had no status in that day; and orphans, who were utterly alone. Treat all people with respect and dignity, as God treated you in Egypt. In other words, imitate God by doing unto others what God has done to you. Paul gives similar advice. You imitated me by receiving the word in great affliction, with joy from the Holy Spirit. Invite others to do the same. We struggle with how to live these words, espe-cially when it comes to welcoming strangers, immi-grants, those who harm us, or those in any kind of need. Our feelings run deep, but the challenge from the scriptures and from the words of Pope Francis is clear: “The Church must be a place of mercy freely given where everyone feels welcomed, loved, for-given, and encouraged to live the good life of the Gospel” (Evangelii Gaudium). The Pope set an ex-ample by bringing three immigrant families to live at the Vatican, another challenge. We need good judg-ment. St. Francis de Sales gives practical advice: Put others in your place and yourself in theirs, then treat the other the way you would like to be treated. That’s how we love God, neighbor and self.
For Prayerful Consideration & Discussion Who is the alien, widow, orphan, or person in
need whom you have trouble seeing as your neighbor? Why?
When has God’s love for you surprised you and helped you love in return? - Living the Word
Baptism Information
Registration forms are available from the Pastoral Center during regular office hours,
or you may download a form from our website at www.stveronicassf.com.
Baptisms are generally celebrated monthly on the 1st and 3rd Saturday in English
and on occasional 2nd Saturdays in Spanish. Please call the Parish Office to sign up.
Upcoming baptism dates are as follows: November 4 & 18 December 2 & 16 2018 Dates TBA
Preparation classes for parents and godparents are held on the second Tuesday of the month.
Classes are conducted in the Pastoral Center from 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. (Adults only please).
Please call the Parish Office at 650-588-1455 for specific dates and to reserve your space for the
Baptismal Preparation Classes.
Pray for our Beloved Deceased
In your prayers this week, please remember the repose of the souls of our deceased parishioners, especially:
José Mora Sr. - died Oct. 15, 2017
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THE CONSECRATION OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO TO THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY, Part 31 & 32
SENHOR ALREDO DA SILVA SANTOS, WHO WAS NOT A BELIEVER in the apparitions, drove to the Cova that day from Lisbon in an automobile. Here is his testimony: “We made our arrangements, and went in three motor cars on the early morning of the 13th. There was a thick mist, and the car which went in front mistook the way so that we were all lost for a time and only arrived at the Cova da Iria at midday by the sun. It was absolutely full of peo-ple, but for my part I felt devoid of any religious feeling. When Lucia called out: ‘Look at the sun!’ the whole multitude repeated: ‘Attention to the sun!’ It was a day of incessant drizzle but a few moments before the miracle it stopped raining. I can hardly find words to describe what followed. The sun
began to move, and at a certain moment appeared to be detached from the sky and about to hurtle upon us like a wheel of flame. My wife --- we had been married only a short time --- fainted, and I was too upset to attend to her, and my brother-in- law, Joao Vassalo, supported her on his arm. I fell on my knees, oblivious of everything, and when I got up I don't know what I said. I think I began to cry out like the others. An old man with a white beard began to attack the atheists aloud and challenged them to say whether or not something supernatural had occurred.” This is the aforementioned testimony of the poet, Alfonso Lopes Vieira, who witnessed the miracle from 25 miles away: “On that day of October 13, 1917, without remembering the predictions of the children, I was enchanted by a remarkable spectacle in the sky of a kind I had never seen before. I saw it from this veranda . . .” And the aforementioned Fr. Ignacio Lourenco describes what it was like to see the miracle as a 9-year old schoolboy from 10 miles away: “I was only nine years old at this time, and I went to the local village school. At about midday we were surprised by the shouts and cries of some men and women who were passing in the street in front of the school. The teacher, a good, pi-ous woman, though nervous and impressionable, was the first to run into the road, with the children after her. “Outside, the people were shouting and weeping and pointing to the sun, ignoring the agitated questions of the school-mistress. It was the great Miracle, which one could see quite distinctly from the top of the hill where my village was situated --- the Miracle of the sun, accompanied by all its extraordinary phenomena. “I feel incapable of describing what I saw and felt. I looked fixedly at the sun, which seemed pale and did not hurt the eyes. Looking like a ball of snow revolving on itself, it suddenly seemed to come down in a zigzag, menacing the earth. Terri-fied, I ran and hid myself among the people, who were weeping and expecting the end of the world at any moment. “Near us was an unbeliever who had spent the morning mocking at the simpletons who had gone off to Fátima just to see an ordinary girl. He now seemed to be paralyzed, his eyes fixed on the sun. Afterwards he trembled from head to foot and lift-ing up his arms fell on his knees in the mud, crying out to our Lady. “Meanwhile the people continued to cry out and to weep, asking God to pardon their sins. We all ran to the two chapels in the village, which were soon filled to overflowing. During those long moments of the solar prodigy, objects around us turned all the colors of the rainbow. We saw ourselves blue, yellow, red, etc. All these strange phenomena increased the fears of the people. After about ten minutes the sun, now dull and pallid, returned to its place. When the people realized that the danger was over, there was an explosion of joy, and everyone joined in thanksgiving and praise to our Lady.” THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN HAD FULFILLED HER PROMISE and provided a miracle to prove the truth of her Message of Peace. The apocalyptic character of the miracle --- those witnessing it thought the world was ending, indeed --- revealed the urgency of her message of repentance, the offering of sacrifices for the conversion of sinners and reparation for sins, and the daily reci-tation of the Holy Rosary. In many ways, we can say that the Miracle of the Sun is the great punctuation mark on the appari-tions of Our Lady at Fátima. One detail is quite interesting from the October apparition. Recall that, while the people were witnessing the Miracle of the Sun, the children were seeing the vision of the Child Jesus, Our Lady, and St. Joseph. In that vision, the Child Jesus and St. Joseph together blessed the world. It was revealed later to St. Jacinta that the blessing of St. Joseph brought the end to World War I. It was also revealed to her that the War would have ended in 1917, but that, as a punishment for the imprisonment of the children, it was permitted to go on one year more, ending on November 11, 1918. The ways of God and the ways of men are often so different. The events of Fátima reveal this to us in clear focus. After the Miracle of the Sun and the final apparition, the three shepherd children returned to the duties of their ordinary lives. Francisco and Jacinta knew that Our Lady would take them to Heaven soon and so they prepared intensely for that mo-ment. Lucia knew that she would live a long while in order to spread devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary throughout the world. Our Lady had told her to learn to read and write for this purpose. The three children prayed the Rosary constantly and offered everything in their lives as sacrifices in reparation for sins and for the conversion of sinners. In many ways, they had be-come public figures in Catholic Portugal, and many of the faithful, including many priests, sought to visit them as they visited the Cova da Iria. The children became living embodiments of the message of Our Lady of Fátima. † - By Fr. Joseph Previtali
