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Diocese of Monterey - Newsletter
April 2016 - Year of Mercy
In the
As we enter the Summer season, I hope that you will
have some time to rest and take some time away to be
with family and friends. Jesus showed us how necessary
it is to spend some quiet time or time apart to reflect
peacefully on our life and how to live it in harmony with
God’s will for us. I pray and hope that all of you may
find some time to enjoy and reflect in these summer
months.
And, for our children, teens and college/university
students, I wish you God’s peace and love. Enjoy.
Also, June 18th, we celebrate Father’s Day. May our
fathers, living and deceased be in our heart and prayers.
A blessed summer to all of you.
+Most Reverend Richard J. Garcia, D.D.
Blessing Prayer for Father’s Day (taken from the Book of Blessings)
Blessed are You, Lord and Father of All Life, who
has given to us the gift of the father of our family.
Today, we honor him, and we thank You for the
numerous good things that are ours because of him.
His love for us has been a sign of Your divine
affection and a sharing in Your holy love.
His continuous concern for our needs and welfare is a mirror of Your holy providence.
And so, as we honor him, we praise You, Father of
All Peoples.
Bless him this day with Your strength and holy
power that he may continue to be a sign of You,
our God, and a priestly parent to our Family.
May we who have the honor of bearing his family
name do so with great pride.
May we, the members of the family, assist him in
his holy duties as a parent with our respect, our
obedience and our deep affection.
Bless him, Lord, with happiness and good health,
with peace and with good fortune, so that he who
has shared of his very life may live forever with
You, his God and heavenly Father.
This blessing and all graces, we pray, descend upon
the father of our family in the name of the Father,
and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen+
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Diocese of Monterey Newsletter - June 2017
AS WE ENTER THE SUMMER SEASON
Al entrar en la temporada de verano, espero que tengan un poco de
tiempo para descansar y tomar algún tiempo para estar con su familia
y amigos. Jesus nos mostró que es necesario pasar un rato tranquilo o
tiempo aparte para reflexionar tranquilamente sobre nuestra vida y
como vivir en armonía con la voluntad de Dios para nosotros.
Ruego y espero que todos ustedes puedan encontrar algún tiempo para
disfrutar y reflexionar en estos meses de verano y para nuestros niños, adolescentes y
estudiantes universitarios, les deseo la paz de Dios y su amor. Disfruten.
También el 18 de junio celebramos el Día del Padre. Que nuestros padres vivos y difuntos
estén en nuestro corazón y en nuestras oraciones.
Bendiciones a todos para el verano.
Muy Reverendo Richard J. Garcia, D.D.
In your Charity please pray for the peaceful repose of the souls of Jesus Flores Pelaez, Murlah Wisner, Irma Logeman, Janet Coffman, Manuel Espinoza, Oscar Chapa
Jesus Flores Pelaez, who retired from Notre Dame High School after
30 years and father of Leticia Flores-McPherson passed away on
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
†
Murlah Wisner, Great-aunt of Bernardine Johnson who passed away on
May 17, 2017.
†
Irma Logeman, mother of Dona Acuff, who passed away on
Saturday, June, 3rd, 2017
†
Janet Coffman, Stefanie Olsen’s aunt, who passed away on
Monday, June 12, 2017
†
Manuel Espinoza, Deacon Manny Espinosa’s father, who passed away
on Friday, June 16, 2017
†
Oscar Chapa, grandfather of Erika Yanez who passed away on
Monday, June 19, 2017
“Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let your perpetual light shine upon them; and may the souls of all the faith-ful departed rest in peace. Amen”
MOST REVEREND RICHARD J. GARCIA, D.D.
Bishop of the Diocese of Monterey 831-373-4345
FAX 831-373-1175
www.dioceseofmonterey.org
425 Church St reet • P.O. Box 2048 • Monterey, Cali forn ia 93942 -2048
MEMORANDUM
To:
From:
Subject:
Date:
Effective Date: Name: Position & Location:
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June 2017
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
Red 1
St. Justin
White/Red 2 Easter Weekday; Sts. Marcellinus & Peter
Red 3 St. Charles Lwanga & Companions
ORDINATION ANNIVERSARY:
Fr. Rudy Ruiz (38)
Red 4
PENTECOST
ORDINATION ANNIVERSARY:
Fr. Thomas Kelly (40)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY:
Dcn. Dan Weber
Red 5
St. Boniface
ORDINATION ANNIVERSARY:
Fr. Richard Clark (24) Fr. Jerry Maher (23)
Green/White 6 Weekday; St. Norbert
HAPPY BIRTHDAY:
Fr. Jerry Maher Fr. Miguel Rodriguez
Green 7
Weekday
ORDINATION ANNIVERSARY:
Dcn. David Ford (9)
Green 8
Weekday
HAPPY BIRTHDAY:
Fr. Pedro Espinoza
ORDINATION ANNIVERSARY:
Dcn. Greg Barata (1) Fr. Derek Hughes (31) Fr. Eamon MacMahon (70)
Green/White 9
Weekday;
St. Ephrem, Deacon
Green/White 10
Weekday;
Mass of Our Lady
ORDINATION ANNIVERSARY:
Fr. Mike Marini (45)
Fr. Robert Schwarz
(52)
White 11
HOLY TRINITY
ORDINATION ANNIVERSARY:
Fr. George Batchelder (12) Fr. Edwin Limpiado (13) Fr. Paul P. Murphy (39) Fr. David Deibel (34) Fr. Milan Kasperek (11)
Green 12
Weekday (10th Week in Ordinary Time)
ORDINATION ANNIVERSARY:
Fr. Peter Crivello (24) Fr. John Dear (24)
White 13
St. Anthony of Padua
HAPPY BIRTHDAY:
Fr. Wayne Dawson Dcn. Greg Barata
Green 14
Weekday
Flag Day
Green 15
Weekday
ORDINATION ANNIVERSARY:
Bishop Richard Garcia (Priesthood - 44) Fr. Enrique Herrera (21)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY:
Fr. Dennis Gallo
Green 16
Weekday
ORDINATION ANNIVERSARY:
Fr. Robert Travis (10)
Green/White 17
Weekday;
Mass of Our Lady
White 18
MOST HOLY BODY & BLOOD OF THE LORD
Father’s Day
Green/White 19
Weekday (11thWeek in Ordinary Time);
St. Romuald
Green 20
Weekday
ORDINATION ANNIVERSARY:
Fr. Dominic Castro (19) Fr. James Henry (46) Fr. Emil Robu (19)
White 21
St. Aloysius Gonzaga
HAPPY BIRTHDAY:
Dcn. Jesse Avila Fr. Joshua Clifton Fr. Robby Sullivan
Green/White/Red 22 Weekday; St. Paulinus of Nola; Sts. John Fisher & Thomas More
ORDINATION ANNIVERSARY:
Fr. Francisco Montes (14)
White 23
Sacred Heart of Jesus
ORDINATION ANNIVERSARY:
Fr. Larry Betrozoff (44) Fr. Gerald McCormick (44)
White 24
BIRTH OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST
Green 25
12th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Green 26
Weekday
HAPPY BIRTHDAY:
Fr. Mike Miller
Green/White 27 Weekday; St. Cyril of Alexandria
Red 28
St. Irenaeus
ORDINATION ANNIVERSARY:
Fr. Nicholas Milich (15)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY:
Fr. Thomas Hall
Red 29 Sts. Peter & Paul, Apostles
ORDINATION ANNIVERSARY:
Fr. Vincent Chae (12) Fr. Romeo Evangelista (15)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY:
Dcn. Pedro Ramos
Green/Red 30 Weekday; First Martyrs of the Church of Rome
THE MONTH OF THE
SACRED HEART OF JESUS
INTENTIONS OF THE HOLY FATHER FOR JUNE 2017:
CALENDAR CONTACT: [email protected]
“[There] appeared in heaven a woman clothed with the sun”. So the seer of Patmos tells us in the Book of Revelation (12:1), adding that she was about to give birth to a son. Then, in the Gospel, we hear Jesus say to his disciple, “Here is your mother” (Jn 19:27). We have a Mother! “So beautiful a Lady”, as the seers of Fatima said to one another as they returned home on that blessed day of 13 May a hundred years ago. That evening, Jacinta could not restrain herself and told the secret to her mother: “Today I saw Our Lady”. They had seen the Mother of Heaven. Many others sought to share that vision, but… they did not see her. The Virgin Mother did not come here so that we could see her. We will have all eternity for that, provided, of course, that we go to heaven.
Our Lady foretold, and warned us about, a way of life that is godless and indeed profanes God in his creatures. Such a life – frequently proposed and imposed – risks leading to hell. Mary came to remind us that God’s light dwells within us and protects us, for, as we heard in the first reading, “the child [of the woman] was snatched away and taken to God” (Rev 12:5). In Lucia’s account, the three chosen children found themselves surrounded by God’s light as it radiated from Our Lady. She enveloped them in the mantle of Light that God had given her. According to the belief and experience of many pilgrims, if not of all, Fatima is more than anything this mantle of Light that protects us, here as in almost no other place on earth. We need but take refuge under the protection of the Virgin Mary and to ask her, as the Salve Regina teaches: “show unto us… Jesus”. …
… Indeed, God created us to be a source of hope for others, a true and attainable hope, in accordance with each person’s state of life. In “asking” and “demanding” of each of us the fulfillment of the duties of our proper state (Letters of Sister Lucia, 28 February 1943), God effects a general mobilization against the indifference that chills the heart and worsens our myopia. We do not want to be a stillborn hope! Life can survive only because of the generosity of other lives. “Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit” (Jn 12:24). The Lord, who always goes before us, said this and did this. Whenever we experience the cross, he has already experienced it before us. We do not mount the cross to find Jesus. Instead it was he who, in his self-abasement, descended even to the cross, in order to find us, to dispel the darkness of evil within us, and to bring us back to the light.
With Mary’s protection, may we be for our world sentinels of the dawn, contemplating the true face of Jesus the Saviour, resplendent at Easter. Thus may we rediscover the young and beautiful face of the Church, which shines forth when she is missionary, welcoming, free, faithful, poor in means and rich in love.
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*PAPA’s PAGE* A SELECTION FROM THE HOMILY OF
THE HOLY FATHER: HOLY MASS AND RITE OF
CANONIZATION OF BLESSEDS FRANCISCO MARTO AND
JACINTA MARTO FEAST OF OUR LADY OF FÁTIMA
SQUARE IN FRONT OF THE SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF FÁTIMA
SATURDAY, 13 MAY 2017
FINANCE DEPARTMENT - Reminders
Parish Budgets for the 2017-18 Fiscal year are due in to the Pastoral Office by
July 31, 2017
Budgets are for the fiscal year beginning September 1, 2017 through August 31, 2018. If you
have any questions concerning the preparation of your budget, please contact Stephanie Mayer at
831 373-4346, or Tom Riordan at 831 373-4345.
Parish Annual Reports for the 2016-17 fiscal year are due in to the Pastoral Office
by October 31, 2017.
Annual Reports are for the fiscal year beginning September 1, 2016 through August 31, 2017. If
you have questions concerning the preparation of the annual report’s Profit & Loss and Balance
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The Diocese of St. Augustine, Florida has advised the Conference of its
concerns regarding one Victor Lopez (“Fr.” Victor Lopez)
The Diocese advises that Mr. Lopez has represented himself as a
Catholic priest and various times as an Episcopalian, a priest of the “Old
Catholic Church”, and most recently as a priest of the “Charismatic
Catholic Church.
Please contact Sr. Patricia Murtagh at the Pastoral Office
(831) 373-4345 ext. 221 if you are contacted by Mr. Victor Lopez.
Bulletin Board
Theology on Tap
Confirmation: What’s in It for Me?
Wednesday, June 28th, 7:00 PM
London Bridge Pub, 256 Figueroa Street (at the foot of Wharf 2), Monterey
Our speaker this month will be Tish Scargill, Director of Catechetical Ministries for the Diocese of
Monterey. Tish will lead a discussion about the sacrament of Confirmation. Since our parishes have just
welcomed new confirmandi in the last month or so, this is a good opportunity to remind ourselves what
this sacrament is all about. Confirmation is often cited as the least-understood of the seven sacraments of
the Church, so let’s take this moment to refresh ourselves. Tish will talk about the roots of Confirmation
in Scripture and in the Church, its nature as a sacrament, its existential/ecclesiastical affects and more.
Let’s talk about what we believe! Join us to enjoy the discussion along with food, drinks, and
friends!
Join Monterey Theology on Tap on Facebook! You can also send questions to Deacon Warren Hoy at
[email protected]. We hope to see you there!
Kindly send your change of e-mail,
address, phone number, fax number or
updates for the Website to:
Bernardine Johnson
831-373-4345 Ext. 226
Newsletter Contact
Leticia Flores-McPherson
831-373-4345 ext. 220
