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Church of the Transfiguration 4000 E. Castro Valley Blvd., Castro Valley, CA 94552-4908
(510) 538-7941 Fax (510) 538-7983 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.transfigchurch.com December 30, 2018
Rev. Mario L. Borges, Pastor ● Rev. Terence O’Malley, Parochial Administrator Deacon John A. Mignano ● Deacon Timothy L. Moore ● Deacon Burton J. Rigley
LITURGICAL MINISTRY: Eucharistic Ministers, Elmer & Puri Serrano Lectors, Barbara Mehan Altar Servers, Clarence Decano
FINANCE COUNCIL: Chairman, Mark Zaleski
PARISH ORGANIZATIONS: Catholic Youth Organization (CYO), 60 Plus or Minus Club, Cursillo Group
SAINT VINCENT de PAUL SOCIETY: (510) 274-0830 Serving our community.
SICK & HOMEBOUND MINISTRY: Claudia Paquette, (510) 537-8986
STEWARDSHIP: Chairperson, Ed Coelho, (510) 881-5705 WINGS “Women in God’s Spirit”: Peggy Maurer, (510) 538-5671
HALL RENTAL MANAGER: Monica Corona, 510-239-7941
YOUTH MINISTRY: Alfonso Corona III [email protected] PARISH OFFICE: Phone: (510) 538-7941 Fax: (510) 538-7983 Hours: 8:00 a.m. — 4:30 p.m., Monday-Thursday (Closed between 12:00 & 1:00 p.m.) Friday, 9:00a.m. — 12:00 Noon - Saturday & Sunday—Closed Secretary, Gloria Meeker Secretary/Bookkeeper, Phyllis Moore
SCHEDULE OF MASSES Saturdays 4:00 p.m. Sundays 7:30 a.m., 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m. Monday-Friday 8:00 a.m. (Except First Fridays - 9:30 a.m.) Communion Service - Saturdays, 8:00 a.m. CONFESSIONS Saturdays 3:00-3:45 p.m. BAPTISMS: Pre-baptismal class is required. Class is held the second Tuesday of the month at 7:30 p.m. in the Rectory. Please call the Parish Office, (510) 538-7941, to register. MATRIMONY: Six months advance notice required. Please call the parish office. WEDDING COORDINATOR: Mel Speed (510) 909-9334 or [email protected] FUNERALS: Please contact the funeral home of your choice and then the parish office. RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: Director, Patrice Ballinger (510) 537-1502 or [email protected] RCIA: Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults Please call the parish office. MUSIC MINISTRY: Director, Alexander Katsman (510) 538-7941, Ext. 302 or [email protected]
Mission Statement: “Transfiguring Our Community Through Faith”
The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph
December 30, 2018 Beloved, we are God’s children now;
what we shall be has not yet been revealed. — 1 John 3:2a
Mass Intentions (Dec. 29, 2018-Jan. 5, 2019) Sat. 4:00 p.m. Edward & Mary Joaquin and Dr. Douglas Franklin Sun. 7:30 a.m. For the People 9:00 a.m. Maria Teresa Silva 11:00 a.m. Juliana Monteiro Mon. 8:00 a.m. Special Intention for Bradley La Verne Tues. 10:00 a.m. For the People Wed. 8:00 a.m. Rosemary Buell Thurs. 8:00 a.m. Alice & Jerry Sullivan Fri. 9:30 a.m. Ponce A. Sinlao Sat. 4:00 p.m. For the People and Louis Mascarenhas
Stewardship Corner The collection total for the weekend of: December 15th & 16th—$8,635.00 (compared to $12,000 average weekly stewardship goal) Christmas Flowers—$1,504.00 Thank you for continuing in your stewardship role of providing for the upkeep of our parish community.
We extend a warm welcome to new parishioners. Please pick up a registration form in the vestibule of the church and return it to the Parish Office. This helps us to serve you better.
Remember Transfiguration in your Will and Living Trust
We invite all women to join us for: WINGS (“Women in God’s Spirit”)
Wings is a faith enhancement group that encourages Spiritual growth through prayer, scripture study,
Catechesis, life sharing and community. Transfiguration Church, Marian Rm. Parish Hall
Thursday, January 3, 2019, 9:00-11:15 a.m. Speaker: Carolyn Trumble
Transfiguration Catholic Church
Mark & Bee Medders will be hosting coffee and donuts this Sunday after the 9:00 a.m. Mass. Stop by and enjoy the fellowship.
Dear Parishioners, I, along with Fr. Terry, would like to thank all of you for your prayers, cards, homemade goodies and gifts during the Christmas season. We appreciate your thoughtfulness! Blessings to you and your families for a Happy New Year! Yours in Christ, Fr. Mario Borges
Please Note: January 1, 2019, New Year’s Day, Mass at 10:00 a.m.
Holy Day of Obligation …………………………………………………………….
First Friday Mass January 4, 2019, Mass at 9:30 a.m.
Adult Bible Study There will be no Bible Study during the holiday season.
We will resume on January 7, 2019.
For Your Information The Parish Office will be closed on January 1st in observance of the New Year’s Day holiday.
Sixty Plus and Minus Club Please join us Friday, January 4th in the Hall following the 9:30a.m. Mass. Remember, dues are payable. Bingo will be played after the meeting. Guests are always wel-come. Sign up today if you plan to attend so our hosts can accommodate all.
HOME IS WHERE THE FAMILY IS The idea, dream, and reality of family is so strong and durable that we use it to describe all that is best about human gatherings. We speak of the family of nations, of our church and parish fam-ilies. The greatest compliment we can pay a friend or gracious host is to say that we feel at home with them, we feel part of the family. Families are the first crucibles in which love is tested and tem-pered. Jesus himself was one of three people who lived in the shadow of each other. This family, like our own, did not always “get it right,” but they always tried to. These three “amateurs” were on holiday, and one of them got lost. Two were worried sick and took great measures to find the third, a boy after all, who was seeking the meaning of his calling. He found his voca-tion—to do his Father’s work—but he also returned home with his parents. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.
The Epiphany of the Lord Sunday, January 6, 2019 We will be celebrating the
Feast of the Epiphany with the arrival of three wise persons (dressed in costume)
at the 9:00 and 11:00 Masses.
The next Baptism Class will be Tuesday, January 8, 2019.
Please call the Parish Office to register.
Credit, Debit, and Electronic Check Offerings If you would like to make your Sunday offering by credit or debit card, or electronic check, please go to our website: transfigchurch.com, and click on the “Donate” tab. From there, click on the “Donate Now” button to be taken to a secure website to complete the setup of your offering.
TODAY’S READINGS First Reading: Sir 3:2-6, 12-14
Second Reading: 1 John 3:1-2, 21-24 Psalm: 84—Gospel: Luke 2:41-52
The English translation of the Psalm Responses from the Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, Interna-tional Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.
READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: 1 Jn 2:18-21; Ps 96:1-2, 11-13; Jn 1:1-18 Tuesday: Nm 6:22-27; Ps 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8; Gal 4:4-7; Lk 2:16-21 Wednesday: 1 Jn 2:22-28; Ps 98:1-4; Jn 1:19-28 Thursday: 1 Jn 2:29 — 3:6; Ps 98:1, 3cd-6; Jn 1:29-34 Friday: 1 Jn 3:7-10; Ps 98:1, 7-9; Jn 1:35-42 Saturday: 1 Jn 3:11-21; Ps 100:1b-5; Jn 1:43-51 Sunday: Is 60:1-6; Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-13; Eph 3:2-3a, 5-6; Mt 2:1-12 SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Sunday: The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph Monday: Seventh Day within the Octave of the Nativity of the Lord; St. Sylvester I: New Year’s Eve Tuesday: The Octave of the Nativity of the Lord; Mary, the Holy Mother of God; World Day of Prayer for Peace; New Year’s Day Wednesday: Ss. Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen Thursday: The Most Holy Name of Jesus Friday: St. Elizabeth Ann Seton; First Friday Saturday: St. John Neumann; First Saturday
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NO CLASSES THIS WEEK.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
C I : Next class session, January13. P.G.O. U : One Warm Coat—Thank you to all who participated.
In January we will collecting blankets for the animal shelters and used crayons …. Just a heads up before you decide to do that New Year’s Cleaning.
~~Religious Education~~
Confirmation
TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION Today’s feast is new as feasts go, and it sets us this year in a very modern crisis. Amid conflicting schedules and commitments, a young man, testing the limits, has strayed from his parents and gone off to the big city. Mary and Joseph search frantically, only to find the child Jesus in the temple, conversing with the elders and scholars of the law, who are amazed at his wisdom. In the time of Jesus, the temple was the religious cen-ter of Jewish ritual. Outside of Jerusalem, people gathered in the synagogues, centers of learning, for daily prayer and study. Still, everyone longed to journey to the temple to participate in the offerings, and to fulfill certain obligations of the law that could only be done there. On this feast, we catch a glimpse of the family of Jesus: parents dealing with the normal stresses of raising a child, and yet completely grounded in the ways of faith and tradition. There has always been an appreciation in Christianity for the value of pilgrimage—the journey to holy places that is a symbol of our life’s journey to God, and a sense of connection to important events in our family history. Dur-ing the Christmas season, many of us undertake pilgrimag-es to the family homestead for festival meals, to the parish-es where we were formed in the faith, or perhaps even to a beautiful manger scene or festival of lights. There are few better days than this in our calendar for spending time with the family, especially on a short pilgrimage to a favorite place. Just make sure that no one gets left behind! —James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.
St. Vincent de Paul There will be a collection this weekend for our Society of St. Vincent de Paul. This collection is our outreach to help those in need in our parish. We appreciate your support.
WARM BLANKETS FOR THOSE WITH COLD NOSES…
OUR FURRY FRIENDS GET MIGHTY COLD THIS TIME OF YEAR!
So, our Confirmation class is seeking your help. We are collecting blankets and towels to help warm up those COLD cages in our local animal shelters. This is your chance to clean out that linen closet and get rid of your old, your tired, your torn. The things that are no longer fit for humans may be just the right thing for a cold puppy or kitty...please help us to help them. We will be accepting your donations on the following weekends ONLY: January 12 & 13 and January 19 & 20 Thank you for helping us make some sad little
lives a bit warmer and nicer. “If you have men who will exclude any of
God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with
their fellow men.” ~ St. Francis of Assisi
LETTER FROM POPE FRANCIS THE “JOY OF THE GOSPEL”
The Proclamation of the Gospel—#269
The spiritual savour of being a people
Jesus himself is the model of this method of evange-lization which brings us to the very heart of his peo-ple. How good it is for us to contemplate the close-ness which he shows to everyone! If he speaks to someone, he looks into their eyes with deep love and concern: “Jesus, looking upon him, loved him” (Mk 10:21). We see how accessible he is, as he draws near the blind man (cf. Mk 10:46-52) and eats and drinks with sinners (cf. Mk 2:16) without worrying about being thought a glutton and a drunkard himself (cf. Mt 11:19). We see his sensitivity in allowing a sinful woman to anoint his feet (cf. Lk 7:36-50) and in receiving Nicodemus by night (cf. Jn 3:1-15). Je-sus’ sacrifice on the cross is nothing else than the culmination of the way he lived his entire life. Moved by his example, we want to enter fully into the fabric of society, sharing the lives of all, listening to their concerns, helping them materially and spirit-ually in their needs, rejoicing with those who rejoice, weeping with those who weep; arm in arm with oth-ers, we are committed to building a new world. But we do so not from a sense of obligation, not as a bur-densome duty, but as the result of a personal deci-sion which brings us joy and gives meaning to our lives.
Fr. Terry’s Remarks— In our Seminary training, we are taught all about diction, eye contact, stance. etc. But they seem to forget to remind us constantly that if we wish to evangelize we must model our-selves on the Master. This is how Jesus did it; '' Jesus looking at him, loved him.'' (Mk 10:1) Jesus ate and drank with sinners without worrying about what oth-ers would say or think. We have to worry all the time about what others think and say. All through the Gospels, Jesus puts the needs of the people he is evangelizing first and foremost. That is the essence of Evangelization. The Christmas season, as we gaze on the Child in the Manger, we are witnessing firsthand what constitutes evangelization. It is not a big word, it is not a philosophy, it is not a skill or technique. It is all about being fully present to the one to be evangelized. The homily of Christmas is a poor babe, lying there helpless but at the same time so powerful for you and me. Take it or leave it.
