Fax: 650-588-1481 Phone: 650-588-1455 www.stveronicassf.com

434 Alida Way, South San Francisco, CA 94080

Established 1951

St. Veronica Church

Second Sunday of Easter (Sunday of Divine Mercy)

April 7, 2013

“Have you come to believe because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and believed.”

- John 20:28

The Incredulity of St. Thomas - Daniel Seiter, 1705

Parish Office Hours Monday to Friday

8:30 a.m. - 4:30 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. Linh Nguyen, Parochial Vicar Deacon Roger Beaudry Deacon Joseph LeBlanc Jennifer Baylor, Administrative Assistant Stephanie de Prume, Finance Manager Ext. 306 Patricia Spiteri, Parish Secretary Karen Guglielmoni, Faith Formation & Wedding Coordinator Ext.305 Christopher Lindstrom, Music Director 650-588-1455 Ext. 308

St. Veronica Catholic School www.saintveronicassf.org

Phone: 650-589-3909

Kathryn Lucchesi Pam Cavagnaro Principal Vice Principal

Parish Office email: churchoffice@stveronicassf.com

Mass Intent ions WEEK of Apri l 7 , 2013

Sun 04/07 6:45 † Alfred & Mary Psaila 8:00 † Edith Madrona 9:30 † Mike & Kevin Folan 11:00 † Godofredo Tablante 12:30 People of St. Veronica 6:30 † Juan Herrada Comarillo

Mon 04/08 6:30 † Vincent Valente 8:30 † Anacoreta Riel

Tue 04/09 6:30 † Lawrence Valente 8:30 † Peter Cinquini

Wed 04/10 6:30 † Francine Ching 8:30 † Clara Ella

Thu 04/11 6:30 † Segundina Amoranto 8:30 † Anthony Piety Gomes

Fri 04/12 6:30 † Joseph Arce 8:30 † Salvador Aguirre, Jr.

Sat 04/13 6:30 † Joe Borg 8:30 † Angelo Ancanan

Sun 04/14 6:45 † Steven Dub 8:00 † Paul & Verena Brossard 9:30 † Emanuel Borg 11:00 † Mike & Kevin Folan 12:30 People of St. Veronica

St. Veronica Parish

SACRAMENTAL PREPARATION

Sacrament of Baptism Baptismal Preparation classes are held once a month.

Call the Parish Office 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

Reflecting on God’s Word Most of us find ourselves remembering a mixture of both good and bad times. We are able to call up the blessings, those times when we lie back on the grass, hands behind our head, gazing at clouds and dreaming of how they shape themselves into silhouettes of what we’ve known and where we’ve been. We hang on to such times. But other memories come along as well, clouds drearier if not also stormier. Adolescence, maybe—it can still taste like a copper penny. Or the growing-up relationship we once had with a parent—some still limp from it, a bruised or broken spirit that never healed the way it should have. Or the feeling that comes from never having made the team—not the basketball team or love’s team or even life’s team. It’s as if we got on the wrong bus when everyone left for the game, and ever after we gaze through the window at all the other buses filled with could’ve-been friends who never wave back. Mercifully life moves on. And if we’re blessed, it moves on into goodnesses of other sorts. Yet not without the scars, those ways our flesh has of remembering. So we remember the wounds, which is what Thomas did. They marked the pain for him, but they also marked the real Jesus. He knew that if the wounds into which he put his hands were real, so would Jesus be, and so also the demise of death. For Thomas it was the wounds that proved resurrection and so moved him into faith.

— Rev. Joseph J. Juknialis Copyright © 2012, World Library Publications. All rights reserved.

Mass Schedule

Saturdays: 8:30AM & 5:00PM Sundays: 6:45, 8:00, 9:30, 11:00AM, and 12:30PM

Holy Days: 6:30, 8:30AM, & 6:30PM Monday - Friday: 6:30 & 8:30AM

Spanish Mass First & Third Sunday of each month at 6:30 PM

unless otherwise announced

Confessions Saturdays: 4:00—5:00PM

Liturgy of the Hours Monday - Friday: Morning Prayer at 6:00AM

Eucharistic Adoration Monday - Friday: 9:00AM - 9:00PM

Parish Registration

Please complete and return form to the parish office, or simply drop it in the collection basket.

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Please remember the sick and the care-givers in our community.

Pray that they may find comfort and healing in Christ. Kindly contact the Parish office if Homebound

Eucharistic services are needed.

Welcome Newly Registered Parishioners!

Our parish continues to be blessed and enriched by the presence of new parishioners:

Sandra & Cristina Bernal & Liliana Ramirez

Ryan Lalongisip & Genevie Ramirez, Ethan Ramirez Lalongisip

Orlando Jr., Ellisse & Gabriel Colin Santos

Our parish welcomes you with open hearts and open arms. We thank God you have chosen to join our community.

Recently we have found personal belong-ings left in the church. So, we have

started a LOST and FOUND which will be located at our Pastoral Office. Please stop by if you have misplaced any items

while in church.

Total Palm Sunday collection of March 23 & March 24, 2013 - $10,204

Saturday 03/30/13 8:00PM 1999.50 1999.50

Sunday 03/31/13 6:45AM 3346.00 3346.00

8:00AM 3731.00 3731.00

9:30AM 5805.00 5805.00

11:00AM 4611.00 4611.00

12:30PM 3190.00 3190.00

TOTALS: $27,169.50 27,169.50

Good Friday of the Holy See 2480.00 2480.00

Holy Thursday 2007.00 2007.00

Day Mass Time 1st Collection No 2nd Collection Totals:

Pray for our Beloved Deceased

In your prayers during the week, please remember the re-pose of the souls of our deceased parishioners, especially:

Mary Ann Rose Soldavini - died March 26, 2013

“Eternal Rest Grant onto Her, O Lord . . .”

Envelopes received in the First Collection: March 16 & 17: 319 March 23 & 24: 378 March 30 & 31: 876

Dear Parishioners,

Musings for Easter Season: We are luxuriat-ing in the beauty and power of Easter. The Ris-en Christ has shown us the way that, despite all sorts of odds in our life, hope springs eternal for new life. We too, like Christ, can leave our tombs of sin and guilt, selfishness and self-centeredness, greed and self-gratification, bias and prejudice, grudges and resentment, hatred and bitterness, anger and indifference, anguish and anxiety, complacency and hopelessness. We can walk triumphant with the Risen Lord into the light of life. We are an Easter people! We are a Resurrection people! We are a people of hope and peace and joy! Let’s come away from the mood of Lent and the sadness of the Good Friday and rejoice with the Lord. He’s risen from the dead, alleluia! Because of Jesus’ resurrection, we can experience transcendence in our daily lives and help, heal, comfort, con-sole, and transform the world, one person at a time, one day at a time, one situation at a time, one relationship at a time, one issue at a time. May the Risen Christ energize us as he did 2000 years ago---for love and service.

Pope Francis: There are many gestures and words of Pope Francis that are creating a new energy, new hope, new excitement for the whole world and the Church. His spirituality seems to inspire us to come closer to the Risen Christ. People haven’t felt like this in a long time. When was the last time the Pope was the conversation of the world, across languages, cultures, and religions? As I have said, I can’t resist reading and watching everything about Pope Francis. I’m even reading up on Argentina these days! One of the hauntingly beautiful im-ages for me is this: when Francis knelt before those 12 prisoners in the juvenile detention cen-ter in Rome on Holy Thursday, as he washed and kissed their feet, two of whom were women and two of whom were Muslim, his cross came to rest on the foot of one of those prisoners. It

was a powerful and moving image for me. Jesus came to humble himself and became obedient un-to death to bring release to prisoners and an-nounce the good news to everyone, especially those who are crushed by circumstances. Pope Francis’s gesture only reflects his Master’s humil-ity and service.

St. Veronica Book Club for 2013-14: Last year we read 12 books. This school year we are going to read more books. I congratulate and thank all the book club members who have been faithful to reading and sharing once a month. Their sharing about faith and life has been an inspiration to me. It’s a joy for the group to come together and talk informally about the insights we gain from these books. Here’s the new list of books we are going to read. If anyone else is interested in joining, you are most welcome. We’d love to have you! Keep in mind, being part of a group and setting our-selves reading goals is one of the good ways to read good books. 1. Joy by Louis Evely 2. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery 3. What you should know About Church History

by Charlene Altemose 4. Conclave by Greg Tobin 5. Come Follow Me by Anthony J. Gittins 6. Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World

by Louis Fischer (Signet Classics) 7. The Great Mysteries by Andrew M. Greeley 8. How Big is Your God by Paul Coutinho, S.J. 9. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse 10. Suffering by Louis Evely 11. The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck,

M.D. 12. Tales from Shakespeare by Charles & Mary

Lamb (Puffin Classics) 13. The Questions of Jesus by John L. McLaughlin

Your friend and pastor, Father Charles Puthota

From the Pastor’s Desk

St. Veronica Easter Season Memorial Flowers In Memory and Honor we offer our prayers for...

Abaya Family, deceased members Alfaro, Braulio & Andrea

Aquino, Mariano Aquino, Ursula

Aure, Donato & Perpetua Baluyot, Reynaldo

Barrientos, Eva Barrientos, Rito & Matilde

Belmessieri Family, deceased members Beltran, Maria

Benjamin & Maria Teresa Bonett, Louis & Mary

Borbon, Florencio Bullentini, Guido & Alma

Campodonico, Attilio Campodonico, Emelie

Cañizares, Ed S. Cañizares, Norma S. Cañizares, René A.

Chan, Braulia Chung, John & Janet

Daumler, William & Josephine Deato, Regino

De La Fuente, Manuel M. & Family

DeNardi Family Derenzi-Monastiere parents,

grandparents & family members Diaz, Arturo

Duffey, Harry, Agatha, & Bill Do, Peter & Family

Esclamado, Lyla Fischer Family

Flores, Rafael & Sonia Ghiorso, John Gogas, George

Ho, Kon Kaitlyn-Kayla Kern, Vida J.

Le, Yen Le Doan, Kim-Chung

Leg, Lai Logan Family, deceased members

Maffei, Donald J. Massucco, Isabel

Mc Carthy, Winnifred Montalvo, Rafael & Juliette

Moreno, Ricardo Munoz, Kathie

Murphy Sr., Cornelius P. Navarret Family

Nguyen, Xuan Thuy O’Keefe, Gordon Otterstecht, Frank Passerini Family Pekarek, Steve Pieretti, Joanna

Poon, Shoa-Ying Poon, Wing-Im

Psalia, Alfred & Mary Ramirez, Carlota

Ratto, Raymond, Marie, & Diane Roxas, Sr., Dominador

Sapparrart, Antonie Seva, Eugenia & Raymond Sundar, Alexander & Hans

Toledo, Bernardo & Victoria Villarico, Emilio

Villarico, Esperanza Villarico, Ricardo

Vogl Family Zinck Family

Zammarchi Family

St. Veronica 2013 Parishioners of the Year - Ron and Marie Derenzi Ron and Marie have been parishioners at St. Veronica since shortly after moving to the Serra Highlands neighborhood of South San Francisco in fall 1968. Marie was an active member of the Father Serra Circle from the early 1970s until it disbanded in late 2007. Ron was an original lay Minister of the Eucharist in 1973 under the guidance of Fr. Dan Derry and continues in this ministry to this day. Marie has since become a Lector and Minister of the Eucharist. While raising their two daughters, Ron and Marie hosted a Confirmation home group for 13 years, and recall with fond memories chaperoning weekend

retreats at the McGucken Center in Occidental, California. Now in their retirement years, both continue to be active parishioners at St. Veronica. Ron is the chair-person of the Parish Finance Committee and a member of the Stewardship Committee. He was also part of the Feasibility Committee that succeeded in repurposing the unused convent building into the new Pastoral Center offices. Marie volunteers in the parish office when needed. The Derenzis can also be found having a great time at parish functions from the Festival to the Women's Guild and Men's Club-sponsored dinners.

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 celebrated on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month at 11:00 a.m. unless otherwise noted:

Preparation classes for parents & godparents are held monthly on Tuesdays as noted below. Classes are con-

ducted in the Pastoral Center from 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. (Adults only please).

Please call the Parish Office at 650-588-1455 to reserve your space for the Baptismal Prep Classes.

April 9 May 7 June 11

July 9 August 13 September 10

April 27 (Noon) May 4 (Full) & 18 June 1 & 15

July 6 & 20 August 3 & 17 September 7 & 21

Father Dan Derry Jubilee (Past Priest of St. Veronica)

Father Dan Derry’s celebrated 50 years of priesthood on March 30, 2013. His Anniversary Mass and reception will be at Saint Mary Parish in Gilroy on April 14. The Bilingual Mass will begin at noon followed by the reception in the

Saint Mary gym.

PILGRIMAGE TO ROME FOR ARCHBISHOP SALVATORE J. CORDILEONE

PALLIUM INVESTITURE June 24 to July 2, 2013

• Economy class air transportation on scheduled airlines from San Francisco, California • 7 nights’ hotel accommodation (2 in Assisi and 5 in Rome) in 4* hotels, including buffet breakfast • 7 meals (5 at lunch or dinner, Pallium Celebration and Farewell Dinner) • Airport transfers and ground transportation by private deluxe motor coach • Guided sightseeing tours as detailed in the program • General Papal Audience • Daily Mass celebration at selected churches Tour escort assistance throughout.

For more information: Tel. (305) 947-4700 • Fax (305) 947-4400

Toll Free 1-877-625-2700 e-mail: info@caravelletours.com website: www.caravelletours.com

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