April 1, 2018 Easter Sunday of the

Resurrection of the Lord

BAPTISM: 1st and 3rd Saturdays at 12 noon. Sunday at 1:15pm

Please call the Rectory to inquire for the parents’ and godparents prepa-

ration class. For grades 2-8, sign up for the

Rite of Christian Initiation of Children (RCIC). For grades 9 and above, call to learn more about the

Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA).

MARRIAGE: 2nd and 4th Saturdays at 12:00 p.m.

Be sure to contact the Rectory at least six months before your anticipated wedding date.

RECONCILIATION / CONFESSION: Saturdays from 2:30 to 3:00 p.m. — or you may call the

Rectory to make an appointment with any priest.

ANOINTING OF THE SICK: Please call the Rectory for one of our priests to come. Our Eucharistic Ministers visit the homebound daily.

EUCHARISTIC ADORATION: Fridays: 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., concluding with

Evening Prayer & Benediction at 6:00 p.m. First Fridays: Benediction & Mass at 6:00 p.m.

OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP DEVOTIONS:

Mondays at 6:00 p.m. in the Church, Novena and Mass.

COMMUNAL RECITATION OF THE ROSARY: Weekdays immediately after the 9:00 a.m. Mass.

LITURGY OF THE WORD FOR CHILDREN: Sundays during the 10:30 a.m. Mass.

OUR LADY OF MERCY PARISH ♦ Daly City, CA 94015-3424

Rectory: 1 Elmwood Dr. — Church / Church Hall: 5 Elmwood Dr. — School: 7 Elmwood Dr. Parish Center / Religious Education Office / Convent: 15 Elmwood Dr.

Established in 1954 — A Member of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco

MASSES:

Saturday Vigil: 4:00 & 5:30 p.m.

Sunday: 7:30, 9:00, & 10:30 a.m.,

and 12:00 p.m.

Monday to Friday: 7:00 & 9:00 a.m., plus First Fridays

at 6:00 p.m.

Saturdays : at 9:00 a.m. only.

Holy Days of Obligation:

Vigil Mass @ 6:00p.m. Masses during the day :

7:00 a.m., 9:00 a.m., & 6:00 p.m.

Parish Telephone Numbers:

Rectory Office (650) 755-2727 Religious Education Office (650) 992-5769 Our Lady of Mercy School (650) 756-3395 OLM School Extended Care (650) 756-1181 Music Director & Organist (415) 282-2241 Our Lady of Mercy Convent (650) 992-5769

The Rectory office is staffed Monday to Friday, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

On weekends and holidays, Our Lady of Mercy Rectory office is closed.

RECTORY STAFF — 1 Elmwood Drive: Rev. Domingo Orimaco Pastor Rev. Bonifacio Espeleta, Jr. Parochial Vicar Deacon Mike Ghiorso Permanent Deacon Deacon Marcos Cobillas Permanent Deacon Grace Mangini, CPA Parish Bookkeeper Sr. Virginia Barcelona, RVM Pastoral Associate Susana Breneman Parish Secretary

SCHOOL STAFF — 7 Elmwood Drive: Mr. Jeffrey Burgos Principal Ms. Beth Gorman Assistant Principal Sr. Eileen Pazmino, RSM School Secretary Mrs. Zarah Llemos School Secretary Sr. Ma. Rosabel Sare, RVM School DRE

PARISH CENTER STAFF — 15 Elmwood Drive:

Sr. Ovelyn Obliosca, RVM Director of Religious Education Ms. Laura Reyes Director of Music IN RESIDENCE: Rev. Rey Culaba,CSsR Rectory Sr. Ruth Linaac, RVM Parish Center/Convent

WEEKEND ASSISTANCE: Sr. Catherine Nguyen, LHC Church Sacristan Bro. Douglas Draper, SJ St. Ignatius College Preparatory

PARISH WEBSITE: www.olmcath.org

SCHOOL WEBSITE: www.olmbulldogs.org

Day Time Mass Intentions for the coming week:

April 2, 2018 - April 8, 2018

Mon 2

7:00am 9:00am 6:00pm

Sr. Ma. Celeste Posadas, RVM+ Sr. Ma. Celeste Posadas, RVM+ Sr. Ma. Celeste Posadas, RVM+

DO BE RC

Tue 3

7:00am 9:00am

Sr. Ma. Aida Zablas, RVM+ Lodevino Lodevico Family –In Thanks

BE BE

Wed 4

7:00am 9:00am

Sr. Ma. Aida Zablas, RVM+ Reynaldo Liao +

BE BE

Thu 5

7:00 am 9:00am

Sr. Ma. Aida Zablas, RVM+ Ulysses Reroma +

RC RC

Fri 6

7:00am 9:00am 6:00pm

Sr. Ma. Anicia Bolano, RVM+ Anthony & Pat Formosa +

Sr. Ma. Anicia Bolano, RVM+

RC BE DO

Sat 7

9:00am 4:00pm 5:30pm

Consuelo Jimenez + Sr. Ma. Anicia Bolano, RVM+

Ferrer Chen +

BE RC DO

Sun 8

7:30am 9:00am

10:30am 12:00pm

Souls In Purgatory Alvin & Julian Canedo + Francisca Fernandez +

Sr. Ma. Consolacion de San Jose, RVM+

RC BE DO BE

Rest in Peace

Souls In Purgatory

PROCLAIM THE RISEN CHRIST

On Easter morning every-thing—the spring weather, the flowers, birds and butter-flies, the people around us in their finery, the beautiful lit-urgy and music—everything seems to bear witness that Jesus Christ is risen today! Like the eyewitness accounts in today’s scriptures, the glorious and joyful life all around us helps us to believe the good news of the Resurrection and sing “Alleluia!” In the scriptures today we hear from Peter and Paul and John. All three speak with conviction about witnessing the resurrected Christ. John’s Gospel account includes Mary of Magdala, who also was privileged to witness the Resurrection and tell others the good news. On this glorious Easter Sunday can we ourselves give eyewitness accounts that Jesus Christ is risen today, alive and active in our lives? Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc.

The other Jesus

Easter Sunday. The most important day in the Christian religion. The day that Jesus showed that he truly was God by arising from the dead. That concept is vital to our belief, the essential building block of our faith. Jesus was God.

But have you ever thought about the other Jesus? The human Jesus?

We tend to concentrate on the fact that Jesus was God, bringing us the direct word from the Father, seeing every-thing with complete knowledge and understanding. No temptations, no doubts, no fears, just perfection come to earth. He knew the answers before there were questions. At least that’s what we tend to think, but if you read the Bible carefully, you find that Jesus was very much a human being.

We know almost nothing about the first thirty years of his life. He was not the center of attention that he would later become. Why did it take 30 years to finally start teaching? Perhaps we see the answer, and the first signs of his human side, in Matthew as he begins his ministry. He goes into the desert to sort out what he should do. After forty days of fast-ing and prayer, he is hungry.

That is when he is first tempted to change stones into bread. This is a very human thought when we are hungry. He rejects it because he has realized that he has been giv-en his ability to work miracles for others, not himself. God gives all different gifts, and we must realize that same thing. Use them for others, not just yourself.

Next the devil takes him to a parapet of the temple and tells him to throw himself down to see if God’s angels will catch him. This shows his doubt about whether God really wants him to do what his prayers have led him to. He rejects this temptation because we all must live with faith, not cer-tainty. Once again, a human trait.

The third temptation is when the devil takes him to a high mountain and shows him all the wealth and magnificence of the kingdoms of the world, promising them all to him if he will worship the things of this earth, the devil. Once again, a temptation we all have, the lure of power and wealth. Jesus rejects it, for those don’t matter, only serving God matters.

He continues to show his human aspects when he cries upon hearing that his friend Lazarus has died. He is again human when he gets angry and drives the money changers from the temple. Then, during the agony in the garden, he begins to be “grieved and distressed” and asks God to “let this cup pass from me”. Finally, he shows desolation and fear on the cross as he cries, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Jesus spent the first thirty years of life becoming human. He learned to love children and obey his parents. He went to the synagogue to pray and saw the trials and tribulations of all the people around him. In other words, he learned and experienced everything that we all do. It took thirty years before he was ready to use that knowledge to help guide us to God.

And so we come to this day, the day of resurrection. Even now, he keeps a human form. He has become one of us, and he brings that knowledge back to God. God now understands us.

After all, He was one of us. ~DN

DATE TIME EVENT PLACE

Sun., April 1 10:30 a.m. 1:15 p.m.

Liturgy of the Word for Children NO Baptisms

Church Church

Mon., April 2 6:00 p.m. Our Lady of Perpetual Help Devotions Church Tue., April 3 7:00 p.m.

7:30 p.m. Cantor Practice Choir Practice

Parish Center Music Room Parish Center Music Room

Wed., April 4 7:00 p.m Baptism Prep. Class for Parents & Godparents Parish Center Music Room Thu., April 5 6:30 p.m. Legion of Mary

Parish Center Music Room

Fri., April 6 1:00 p.m. 9:30am - 6:00pm

6:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m.

Charismatic Prayer Group meeting Eucharistic Exposition & Adoration

Evening Prayer + Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament Youth Ministry

Parish Center Library Church Church

Parish Center Library

Sat., April 7 12noon

2:30 - 3:00 p.m.

Baptisms of Francisco Duarte Jr., Kyrie Chance Espiritu, Jasmine Tiongco Mariano & Alexa Belle Bacomo

Confessions

Church

Church Sun., April 8 10:30 a.m.

1:15 p.m.

Liturgy of the Word for Children Baptism of Olivia Ramielle Amodo

Church Church

Please join us in our 4th Annual 3 -Day Prayer Devotion (Triduum) hon-oring SAN PEDRO CALUNGSOD on Thursday, April 12 - 6:30PM, Fri-day, April 13 – 6:30PM, and Satur-day, April 14 -3:15PM with the 4:00 mass immediately following at Our Lady of Mercy Church. Saint Pedro Calungsod is the second Filipino saint and was canonized in

October 2012. He was a teenage native of the Visayas region in the Philippines and served as a missionary lay catechist along with the Spanish Jesuit missionary Diego Luis San Vitores in Guam. He preached Christianity to the Chamorro people through catechism, baptizing in-fants, children and adults at the risk of being persecuted and was eventually murdered at the age of 17. Through San Pedro and San Vitores’ efforts, many native Chamorros converted to Roman Catholicism. Saint Pedro is the patron of the youth, altar boys, mi-grants, catechists, and the Overseas Filipino Workers.

The crown of thorns has become a crown of life.

OLM Young at Heart Club Sunday,April29,2018Lunch@NicksRockawayBeachMOTHER’SDAYCELEBRATION

NoHostcocktails@1pm/LUNCH@2pmMenuchoice:RoastedHalfChicken TopSirloinSteakor Crab&ShrimpLouieSaladservedwithMinestroneSoupAllentreesinclude:MixedGreenwithShrimp,GarlicBread,Potato,VegetableduJour,CoffeeorTea.DessertbyBarbara.Paidupmember:$30.00perperson Other:$31.00/personMake Checks payable to OLM Young @ Heart Club Mail to: Tere Massey, 968 Southgate Ave, Daly City, Ca 94015 For reservations call: Tere @ 650-756-0885 or call Barbara @ 650-892-6727

DIVINE MERCY NOVENA Join us for OLM’s sixth annual nine-day novena to the Divine Mercy which begins on March 30, Good Friday after the Good Friday Services at 4:30 pm. The Chaplet will be prayed daily before the Mass and Novena Masses will be celebrated in the evening during Easter week. Please see posted flyers in the vestibule for exact times of the daily schedule.

Easter Sunday of the Resurrec-tion of the Lord April 1, 2018 I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the L . — Psalm 118:17 TODAY’S READINGS First Reading — Peter is an eye-witness: The Lord is risen (Acts 10:34a, 37-43). Psalm — This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad (Psalm 118). (1) Second Reading — All who are baptized, set your hearts in heaven (Colossians 3:1-4) or (2) Second Reading — Christ our Passover is sacri-ficed; therefore let us celebrate (1 Corinthians 5:6b-8). Gospel — Three witnesses, Mary, Peter, and John; each responds to the empty tomb (John 20:1-9) or Mark 16:1-7 (or, at an afternoon or evening Mass, Luke 24:13-35). The English translation of the Psalm Responses from Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.

READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Acts 2:14, 22-33; Ps 16:1-2a, 5, 7-11; Mt 28:8-15 Tuesday: Acts 2:36-41; Ps 33:4-5, 18-20, 22; Jn 20:11-18 Wednesday: Acts 3:1-10; Ps 105:1-4, 6-9; Lk 24:13-35 Thursday: Acts 3:11-26; Ps

8:2ab, 5-9; Lk 24:35-48 Friday: Acts 4:1-12; Ps 118:1-2, 4, 22-27a; Jn 21:1-14 Saturday: Acts 4:13-21; Ps 118:1, 14-15ab, 16-21; Mk 16:9-15 Sunday: Acts 4:32-35; Ps 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24; 1 Jn 5:1-6; Jn 20:19-31 SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Sunday: Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord Monday: Monday within the Octave of Easter Tuesday: Tuesday within the Octave of Easter Wednesday: Wednesday within the Octave of Easter Thursday: Thursday within the Octave of Easter Friday: Friday within the Octave of Easter; First Friday; Julian Calendar Good Friday Saturday: Saturday within the Octave of Easter; First Saturday

THE RETURN OF EASTER The return of Easter should be to the Christian life the call of a trumpet. It is the news of a great victory. It is

the solution of a great perplexity. It is the assurance of a great triumph. —Frederick Temple

The People of O.L.M.

Committees Parish Pastoral Council

Parish Finance Committee Parish Social Committee

Principal’s Advisory Council Liturgy Committee

Liturgical Ministries Altar Servers, Lectors, Eucharistic Ministers,

Ushers, Cantors, Parish Choir, Children’s Choir, Youth Ministry

Spiritual Development Bible Study Group

Charismatic Prayer Group Third Order Carmelites

Legion of Mary Singles for Christ

Service and Social Organizations Saint Vincent de Paul Society

Young at Heart Club Knights of Columbus

Parish Bulletin Staff Susan Breneman, Mr. Denis Nolan

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• Baptism and Confirmation of their children, • Weddings and Marriage Anniversaries, • Funeral Services for loved ones,

etc.

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Church Name: Our Lady of Mercy Location: Daly City, CA 94015 Bulletin #: 519131 Phone #: (650) 755-2727 Modem #: (650)755-7444 Printer #: HP Laser Jet 4MP Bulletin Editor: Susan Breneman Email Address: olmcatholicchurch@gmail.com Comments or request: