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December 30, 2018
The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph
SAINT LAWRENCE THE MARTYR CATHOLIC PARISH AND EDUCATION CENTER 1971 ST. LAWRENCE DRIVE SANTA CLARA, CA 95051 TEL. NO. 408-296-3000 FAX NO. 408-296-3100
E-Mail Address: [email protected] Website: www.saintlawrence.org Celebrating Our Catholic Faith through Worship, Education, and Service
On behalf of the Administ ative
and Pastoral Staff, Facult Staff,
Parents, St dents and Volunteers of
Saint Lawrence the Mar Catholic Parish
and Education Center, we ex end our hear felt
thanks to you for all your love,
suppor , and prayers.
In observance of the New Year Holiday, the Parish Office will be closed on
Tuesday, January 1, 2019. We will be happy to serve you when we open on Wednesday,
January 2, 2019. Thank you!
Tuesday, January 1, 2019
The Octave Day of the Nativity of the Lord
Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God
Mass at 10:00 AM
St. Lawrence the Martyr Parish accepts donations electronically using your computer, tablet or smart phone. Parishioner Benefits Set up your own contributions Your donation is automatic and safe Electronic giving is efficient, practical and easy
Please prayerfully consider Online Giving. Visit our Parish website at www.saintlawrence.org
for more information or to sign up.
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Fr. Ernesto Orci Pastor [email protected] 1-408-296-3000 Ext. 438
Fr. Joseph Page Parochial Vicar [email protected] 1-408-296-3000 Ext. 440 PARISH OFFICE 1-408-296-3000 Monday - Friday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Saturday 9:00 AM - Noon [email protected] Giuliana Barragan Office Manager [email protected] Ext. 431 Vickie Wallace Office Assistant [email protected] Ext. 432 CATECHETICAL OFFICE SUNDAY SCHOOL OF RELIGION M. Eleanor de Paz - Catechetical Director [email protected] Ext. 433
MIDDLE SCHOOL YOUTH MINISTRY M. Eleanor de Paz [email protected] Ext. 433 HIGH SCHOOL YOUTH MINISTRY [email protected] Ext. 433 HIGH SCHOOL CONFIRMATION Elgin Presa - Coordinator Katrina Antonio - Coordinator [email protected] YOUNG ADULT MINISTRY [email protected] ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL (Pre-K - 8th Grade) Carina Lares - Principal [email protected] 1-408-296-2260 CHILDREN’S CENTER 1-408-296-8077 Teen Center & Extended Day Care Trini Martinez - Director
December 30, 2018 St. Vincent de Paul
January 13, 2019 Education Center
We are now selling
SCRIP at the Parish Office
Thursdays From 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM Thank you for supporting
Saint Lawrence the Martyr Parish.
Due to the early submission
of this week’s bulletin to the printer, the Stewardship Data For December 23, 2018
will be published in next week’s bulletin. Thank you!
Friendship Club Luncheon
Thursday, January 3rd, 2019
11:30am Parish Hall
Pay $ 10.00 at the Door
RSVP ONLY if coming Ellen Navarra 408-244-9659 Cora Tarcha 408-668-5652
Chinese Food from Lee’s Kitchen Desserts & Drinks Bingo after lunch
Liturgy Corner by: Deborah Ferry Feast of the Holy Family
(taken from Commentary On Today’s Gospel)
There is an odd tension in this passage that wrestles between presenting Jesus as (1) a pious Jewish youth who observes the Law and submits to the authority of his parents and (2) a self-assured young man who rather ominously suggests this his heavenly Father has a stronger claim upon him than the flesh and blood parents who breathlessly seek and find him in the Temple.
The details of this unique story, told only by Luke, are fascinating and revealing. The family has honored its religious duty to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem for the annual Passover festival. Jesus is twelve, nearly a man in that culture, but also very much in the care of his parents. Remaining behind is clearly a choice Jesus makes without his parents’ knowledge. It is a fascinating glimpse into that time and culture to read that, for an entire day, Mary and Joseph were comfortable in the assumption that their son was among relatives in the caravan. When they discover their mistake, they turn back and find him only after a search of “three days.” While this detail is a likely anticipation of Jesus’ dark sojourn in the tomb, it also suggests the distraught state of the parents when finally they find the boy in the Temple precincts.
The scene of which he is at the center is indeed remarkable: this boy, shy of his bar mitzvah, is nonetheless holding court among the scholars and teachers, astounding them with the insight he manifests, not only in his “questions,” but also in his “understanding and his answers.” He feels at home; he is at home and seems as surprised that Joseph and Mary came looking as they are to find he’d stayed behind on purpose. Mary takes the lead and doesn’t hide her disappointment and hurt as she asks what almost every mother has asked at some point, “How could you?”
Jesus replies with his own questions that seem to challenge his parents; assumptions about who is parenting whom. Jesus has another Father and his “house” and “work” have already laid claim to Jesus’ heart. We sense Jesus has never spoken like this before. Mary and Joseph are left to wonder, as many parents do, about what awaits their remarkable child.
The sober final sentences tells us of Jesus’ obedience, his mother’s silent prayerful musings, and of how Jesus, in his hidden, inner life grows into an impressive figure before both “God and man.”
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We welcomed Bishop Oscar Cantú, Coadjutor Bishop of San Jose to
St. Lawrence the Martyr Parish as he celebrated the opening Simbang Gabi Mass,
December 15th at 5pm, and reception that was held afterwards.
MASS TIMES Sunday 8:00 AM 10:00 AM (Children’s Liturgy of the Word) 12 Noon 1:30 PM (Mass in Spanish) 6:00 PM (Youth Mass) American Sign Language (ASL) Mass 3:30 PM (In the Church) 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month Saturday 8:30 AM 5:00 PM (Sunday Vigil) Monday – Friday 8:30 AM
Reconciliation Saturday 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM or by appointment
Eucharistic Adoration Thursday 9:00 AM Solemn Benediction 8:30 PM
Devotions Rosary (English) ● Monday to Saturday After the 8:30 AM Mass Rosario en Español ● Martes 6:30 PM en Capilla Novena to Our Mother of Perpetual Help ● Tuesday 8:15 AM
Chapel Open Daily from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM
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December 30 to January 6, 2018 YEAR C for the
The Luck of St. Lawrence is back! Tickets are now available at the Parish Office
Year! Deadline: Tickets must be returned to the Parish Office on Jan. 26, 2019 before 12 Noon for the drawing on Jan. 27, 2019.
Congratulations to Joan Sioson who won $ 1,000 on December 15, 2018.
The Next drawing will be on January 27, 2019 for a $ 300 prize. Remember that each ticket you buy now gives you 6 chances to win. Please return your sold ticket stubs with payment to the Parish Office since the sooner you turn in your sold tickets, the more chances you have to win the prizes money.
You can be the next Lucky
Winner!
Now on its
Palabra que da Vida
Hoy celebramos a la sagrada familia de Nazareth, de la cual podemos aprender tres aspectos muy importantes:
La existencia de la Autoridad, del Servi-cio y la existencia de una comunión que se consigue a base del respeto del uno al
otro, son tres valores imprescindibles en nuestras familias, y que estaban presentes en aquella sagrada familia de Nazareth. Hoy hay una sensación cada vez mas generalizada que para que una familia vaya bien, no tiene por qué haber autoridad, y cada uno puede hacer lo que se le dé la gana, entrar o salir de casa como si fuera un hotel. Esto no es el modelo que hemos recibido. La autoridad es un don, es un servicio; la autoridad es buena. La autoridad no es símbolo de autoritarismo, ni dictadura. Autoridad es tener un orden de valo-res, unas prioridades que en la familia se pueden transmitir, ense-ñando a la siguiente generación que hay cosas buenas y cosas que son malas. Muchas de las crisis matrimoniales de hoy y aumento de los divorcios, se deben en parte, a que esos que ahora se casan pro-ceden de familias en donde no había autoridad ni respeto.
El segundo valor de la Sagrada familia es precisamente el servi-cio. Ahí todos querían amar, cada uno tenia su parte que hacer, pero todos querían amar, todos querían servir. No había eso de que mien-tras más me aproveche de la situación, que lo haga el otro, o cuanto menos haga es mejor. Ese no era el planteamiento de la sagrada fa-milia. Al contrario, ¿puedo hacer algo más por mi familia? Estoy en casa, es una cosa mía, no es solo del otro, es algo que tengo que construir ¡Cuanto más haga por mi familia es mejor! Naturalmente, todos los demás miembros de la familia tienen que hacer o intentar hacer lo mismo, claro que cada uno de acuerdo con sus responsabili-dades y sus fuerzas.
El tercer valor es el respeto, es importantísimo el respeto en la fami-lia. Y el respeto significa que somos distintos y no podemos pretender que el otro sea como nosotros.
AUTORIDAD SERVICIO Y RESPETO A LAS legitimas diferencias. Así era la sagrada familia, y así deberían de ser también las nuestras.
Pbro. Santiago Martin Responsable MARC.
For St. Lawrence Fifth Grade! Apply at waldenwest.org/volunteer
(and request April 8-12, 2019) [email protected]
For St. Lawrence Sixth Grade! Apply at waldenwest.org/volunteer
(and request Feb. 25–March 1, 2019) [email protected]
No habrá clase, por vacaciones
Iniciaremos nuevamente
el 15 de enero 2019
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Please Pray For... Our Parishioners, Friends, and Family
Vince Adan Ann Ayala
Razon-Barragan Malu Bautista Paul Bazigian John Bonette
Cheryl Ann Coutcher Craig DeGiovanni Jr.
Toni DeGiovanni Suzanna Fossom
Matt Hardin Margaret Haselden
Connor Higgins Mary Lou Hostetter
Ann Lizotte Luli Maldonado Alvina Martinez
Patricia Martinez Jesus Julio Morales Jr.
Mackena Naki Pat Naki
Emily Grace Navarra Ernie Ortiz
Elizabeth Ostachuck Ana Perez
Alberta Perkins Lina Pirotta
Moses Pirotta Fatima Reis Joel Rivera
Ramón Valadez Soledad Valadez
David Vega Lina Velasco
Ricardo Villagomez Soyong Williams
Alma Zamora
Daniel Smith
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There are plenty of seats on the bus leaving from Saint Lawrence Parish in Santa Clara. The bus will leave St. Lawrence at 7:45am to arrive at St. Mary’s Cathedral for 9:30am Mass. After Mass, we will walk a few blocks to Civic Center Plaza. We plan to return to St. Lawrence by 5:30pm. Bus tickets are $15.00.
For more information visit www.saintlawrence.org or call (408) 296-3000.
Have you lost a child due to miscarriage or abortion?
Have any of your family or friends faced the same loss? Please join us at Holy Mass
for all victims of abortion and their families on the
anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
The collection will be donated to the St. Juan Diego Women Center in San Jose to support
women struggling to choose life for their
unborn children.
SERVING & SAVING - Homeless & Pregnant,
Saturday, January 12, 2019 at St. Lawrence Community Center:
Council members along with St. Lawrence Council 5277 and the TMIY! Men's group
at St. Lawrence Parish will assist with this fundraiser for the
Juan Diego Women's Center pregnancy care ministry.
Dinner will be free, please RSVP to [email protected] if you would like to attend.
If you can volunteer, please contact
[email protected]. For info visit http://www.jdwcenter.org
Office for the Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults
Diocese of San Jose Anthony Gonzalez
Phone: 1-408-983-0113 Fax: 1-408-983-0147
Emergency line: 1-408-983-0141 E-mail: [email protected]
Office of Financial Services If you suspect financial
mismanagement or misconduct in your parish, school, or in the
Diocese of San Jose, please contact: EthicsPoint
dsj.ethicspoint.com or hotline 888-325-7863
All medical doctors are invited to attend a monthly Mass specifically dedicated to physicians and their work throughout our San Jose Diocese. Mass is held each first Saturday of the month at 7 am at St. Frances Cabrini Church in San Jose. The next Doctors’ Mass is scheduled for January 5th. Come give your medical vocation some extra spiritual attention. Mass is followed by a light breakfast and fellowship with colleagues.
For more information contact Dr. Steve Bui at [email protected] or call 408-972-6846.
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Please call ahead for Pre-Needs or At-Need Arrangements
CATHOLIC CEMETERIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SAN JOSE Gate of Heaven Cemetery
22555 Cristo Rey Drive, Los Altos, CA 94024
(650) 428-3730
Calvary Cemetery
2655 Madden Avenue, San Jose, CA 95116
(408) 258-2940
Temporary Liturgical Adaptations during the 2018/2019 Flu/Cold Season
The Public Health Officer of Santa Clara County has again requested that we make a number of temporary adaptations to our celebrations of the Eucharist, so as to foster the health of our worshipping communities and also of the wider community. Given the anticipated increase of the flu throughout the Diocese in upcoming weeks, these adaptations will be implemented starting, December 15/16 until further notice. For the duration of the flu/cold/virus season, Holy Communion will not be shared under the form of Consecrated Wine. Provision should be made for those parishioners who rely upon receiving Holy Communion under the Sacred Species of Consecrated Wine because of Celiac Disease or other conditions that do not tolerate the ingestion of a consecrated host. Holy Communion will be distributed only into the hands of communicants; during this time, Holy Communion will not be distributed on the tongue. Should a communicant be unwilling to follow this directive, that person is to receive Holy Communion after everyone else has done so. People should refrain from holding hands during the recitation or singing of the Lord’s Prayer. The exchanging Sign of Peace should be adapted so as to allow for a greeting that does not require shaking hands or touching. All who administer Holy Communion are to wash their hands with an alcohol-based anti-bacterial solution, such as Purell, before and after they administer the Sacrament. This precaution also extends to those who minister to the homebound. The obligation to participate in Sunday Mass does not hold for those who are seriously ill, and that it would be a mark of Christian charity for anyone who has fever, cough or other such symptoms to remain at home. Thank you for your immediate attention to these matters.
