December 17, 2015

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Simbang Gabi:

Ritual opening ‘symbol of open door to paradise’

Popular Christmas novenas begin in archdiocese

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Archbishop Cordileone ritually opens the entrance to St. Mary’s Cathedral as a symbolic Holy Door, in a ceremony Dec. 13 inaugurating the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy in the archdiocese. Five-hundred faithful gathered in the plaza for the ceremony followed the archbishop into the church.

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Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone ritually opened the main entrance to St. Mary’s Cathedral as a symbolic Holy Door, and 500 faithful who had gathered in the plaza for the ceremony filed into the church Dec. 13 for an Advent Sunday vespers service to inaugurate the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy in the archdiocese.

“This is the Lord’s gate; let us enter through it and obtain mercy and forgiveness,” the archbishop said as the door opened, enacting a ritual taking place in dioceses throughout the world to begin the Holy Year designated by Pope Francis.

In his homily, the archbishop said the cathedral Holy Door and others to be opened in the archdiocese during the Year of Mercy should serve as “a symbol of the open door to paradise, God’s Kingdom, to which God gives us access through the death of His Son; a reminder that God’s mercy triumphs over judgment if we open our minds and hearts to the grace He wishes to lavish upon us.”

The archbishop said it is appropriate that the Holy Year should begin during Advent, “when we prepare to celebrate the moment in which God’s mercy took on a human face, the face of Jesus of Nazareth, in the mystery of the Incarnation.”

The human race was locked out and cast out of paradise by the fall of our

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first parents, but Christ came to reopen the door “so that we can regain access to paradise, come in from the dark and the cold – the dark and cold of sin and all of its gloomy consequences – and gain the protection of God’s grace from all of those harmful elements.”

As with every Jubilee Year in the history of the church, this year presents an opportunity to gain the indulgence of God’s mercy, the archbishop said.

Faithful passing through designated holy doors may obtain the Holy Year Indulgence, under the usual conditions: freedom from all attachment to sin, including venial sin; sacramental confession; reception of Holy Communion; prayer for the intentions of the Holy Father.

“Through a special concession, Pope Francis has also granted to bishops the privilege of an Apostolic Blessing with a plenary indulgence at the opening of the Holy Door of Mercy, which I will impart at the conclusion of this vespers service,” the archbishop said.

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Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone joined in prayer with the family of 26-year-old Hector Salvador Dec. 9 at 16th and Hoff streets in the Mission District in San Francisco.

Salvador was shot and killed in the early morning of Dec. 6 at the site. The archdiocesan restorative justice ministry holds prayer vigils for every person who dies by violence and prays for them and for those who killed them. The pastor of St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church, Rev. Richard Smith, supporters of the restorative justice ministry, and others formed a circle around a tree with a makeshift shrine for Salvador.

“Let us pray for Hector that God may forgive whatever sins he may have committed in human weakness and remember all the good he did. May God welcome him into paradise, let us pray to the Lord,” the archbishop prayed.

“For those who hurt and killed Hector. Let us pray for the conversion of their hearts and that justice and mercy may be served,” Archbishop Cordileone prayed.

Salvador was reportedly shot once in the torso around 2 a.m., and died after being transported to the hospital, San Francisco police said.

The archbishop said stopping violence is about changing hearts most of all.

(Photos by Valerie Schmalz/Catholic San Francisco)

Hector Salvador’s mother Maria Salvador, his stepfather and the archbishop are pictured at a prayer vigil Dec 9. Left, a shrine memorializes the 26-year-old who was fatally shot Dec. 6.

“We need to teach people how to resolve their differences in a peaceful way, not turn to violence,” Archbishop Cordileone said. While the Catholic Church does not have a position on gun control, the archbishop said, “in general the bishops are sympathetic to reasonable laws that would regulate the sale of firearms.”

The archdiocesan restorative justice ministry reaches out to the victims of violent crimes and has been organiz-

ing prayer vigils for those who died by violence for more than three years. The vigils also include prayers for those who committed the violence.

The ministry recently created a program to prepare volunteers to support the families of crime victims.

“Adding to a family’s trauma after a murder are intrusions into the normal grief process that others facing a loss don’t typically face,” said Julio Escobar, director of restorative justice ministry,

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At the prayer vigil, Salvador’s mother, Maria Salvador said she did not know when her son’s body would be released or when she could have a funeral for him. Escobar told her he could help her organize a rosary for him.

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SVdP helps Patrice Grennan be ‘true disciple of Jesus’ Tom Burke catholic San Francisco

Since 1860, the St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco has provided hope and direct service to those in need.

Today, SVdP is a leader in providing shelter and services to those suffering from domestic violence and homelessness.

SVdP, San Francisco serves approximately 5,500 low-income individuals every year. The Riley Center with services for survivors Patrice Grennan of domestic violence provides support to 2,000 people pursuing violence-free lives. The SVdP drop-in Community Office offers case management, support groups, education and follow-up support to former Riley Center residents and others free of charge.

SVdP’s Multi-Service Center-South, the largest single-adult homeless shelter in Northern California and a recognized leader in the care for individuals experiencing homelessness, provides direct services to 340 men and women and provides drop-in services to approximately 70 individuals each day.

“I first became involved with the society two years ago through my parish conference at St. Vincent de Paul in Cow Hollow,” said conference president, Patrice Grennan. “My conference is extremely active within the society so I quickly found many opportunities to become involved.

“I am very honored to be the president of the SVdP Conference, a clerical volunteer at the society’s administration office, and a Monday lunch cook and server at the MSC-South shelter. All of these positions offer me the special opportunity to work with, get to know, and support many of the society’s dedicated staff, warm and talented volunteers, and wonderful recipients of their services.

“My volunteer-work with the society allows me to put my faith into action and be a true disciple of Jesus. I thoroughly enjoy being with individuals on a personal level, giving them consistency, community, faith and love. The society is an amazing organization that makes a huge difference for many struggling individuals and families in our city, and I am very grateful to be an active part of it.”

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Salter, a member of the faculty at Mercy, said students “really enjoyed” the talk. “This was a great experience for the girls to be able to better understand economics regarding ethics and accountability by all.” Among those in attendance were Jackie Trejo, Anissa Silva, Hannah Siddhu, Graeson Fee, Ciara Callanan, Hannah Lahey, Krystal Singh and Layla Mustafa.

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Simbang Gabi novenas begin in archdiocese Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and Bishops William J. Justice and Daniel Walsh, joined by about two dozen priests, celebrated the traditional Simbang Gabi Commissioning Mass Dec. 9 at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

Archbishop Cordileone noted the commissioning Mass and the Simbang Gabi novena begin just after Pope Francis opened the Jubilee Year of Mercy Dec. 8 “Jesus is the face of mercy,” Archbishop Cordileone said, the answer to many people who feel burdened. “Let us joyfully walk with him.”

The Mass began with a procession of representatives from all the parishes which will have Simbang Gabi with representatives carrying the parol, the colorful lanterns that are the symbol of the Christmas novena begun by farmers in the Philippines. After the homily, in the blessing of the parol and the people organizing the Simbang Gabi in their parishes, Archbishop Cordileone said, “Bless these parol as they go forth to spread the light of Christ.”

For the first time in recent memory, many prayers and hymns were sung in Tagalog at St. Mary’s Cathedral, with music by the St. Therese Choir, a group made up mostly of parishioners from St. Andrew, St. Peter, Pacifica and Church of the Good Shepherd. The songs in Tagalog were heart warming for the mostly Filipino attendees, because they were “songs we all know so we can sing along,” said Simbang Gabi organizer Nellie Hizon.

Hizon echoed the archbishop’s sentiments, saying, “We are celebrating Simbang Gabi this year within the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy.

We search, we wait, for the coming of God’s Only Begotten Son.” Over the years, the Simbang Gabi tradition has spread to many parishes in the Archdiocese of San Francisco so that now more than 40 parishes participate. At Hizon’s parish, St. Stephen, the first Filipino Christmas novena

(Photos by Valerie Schmalz/Catholic San Francisco)

Parish representatives carry parol at the Dec. 9 commissioning Mass for the annual Simbang Gabi novena preparing for Christmas and Jesus’ birth. was held 20 years ago. The Masses are celebrated in the early morning, around 6 a.m. in some parishes, and in the evening at others.

Traditionally, Christmas Day in the Philippines is ushered in by the nine-day dawn Masses that start on Dec. 16. Originally, it popularly came to be known as Misa Aguinaldo or also known as the Misa de Gallo (“Rooster’s Mass”) in the traditional Spanish, and these Masses are also more popularly known in Tagalog as Simbang Gabi, or “Dawn Mass.”

Simbang Gabi has become one of the most popular traditions in the Philippines and is popular in California as well. “It is a significant moment not only because it strengthens relationships among family members and parishioners but also because it is the time where our faith is intensified, “according to Father Marvin Felipe, in a column about Simbang Gabi in 2011.

“This is the time where we mostly feel the presence of the Lord because it is the spiritual preparation for Christmas, the birth of Jesus Christ,” Father Felipe said.

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Mission Dolores couple pillars of Our Lady veneration Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

One of the signature moments in the Mission Dolores celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe is when rose petals fall from the dome of the basilica during the reenactment of St. Juan Diego opening his tilma to show the bishop of Mexico City the roses from Our Lady.

“It is now tradition,” said San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice, who was pastor in 2007 when Gloria DeLeon and Catalina Huerta of the Mission Dolores Guadalupe Society were inspired by the rose petals strewing the ground as they stripped thorns from the dozens of roses used to bedeck the altar.

Men walk along the inside of the dome on a little walkway invisible to those below, dropping the buckets of petals. The tilma is hand painted with an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe – one that Catalina Huerta asked a talented priest friend to paint around the time Guadalupe celebration began in 1972.

The Guadalupe Mass, a 4:30 a.m. dawn Mass for the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe is an outgrowth of the Spanish language Mass – and Robert and Catalina Huerta, a couple now in their 80s, were instrumental in developing both. At the Dec. 12 celebration they were both involved, Bob Huerta in his Knights of Columbus role, Catalina Huerta preparing the roses the day before, stapling the pro(Photos by Dennis Callahan/Catholic San Francisco

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Rose petals fall from the dome of Mission Dolores Basilica Dec. 12 during the reenactment of St. Juan Diego opening his tilma to show the bishop of Mexico City roses from Our Lady. The annual dawn Mass for the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe is an outgrowth of the Spanish-language Mass – and Robert and Catalina Huerta, a couple now in their 80s, were instrumental in developing both.

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The Guadalupe Society raised the money for the statue. “We bought it in Mexico and we had to get a plane ticket because she took up a seat,” said Bob Huerta, a Southern California twang in his voice.

DeLeon and the Huertas were “the heart of getting the Spanish Mass and the Guadalupe Mass,” said Bishop Justice. He said Catalina’s organizing talent – “she was really the mother hen”– and Bob’s calm presence have been a staple of the parish’s

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Bob Huerta was a Navy sailor and cook on shore patrol when he met Catalina in the 1950s at the California State Fair. They moved to San Francisco after Bob Huerta retired from the Navy.

The couple was instrumental in convincing Bishop Merlin Guilfoyle to begin a Spanish language Mass in 1966. The Huertas “took our kids with us, knocking on doors,” to get signatures.

They raised three daughters and a son in the parish. Their daughter in Louisiana returned to marry at the basilica, brought her two children to be baptized at Mission Dolores and now, Catalina said, the grandchildren tell her: “When we marry we have to go to Mission Dolores.”

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SVdP of San Mateo: Helping those on the streets with ‘basic survival’ Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

The warmer than average Pacific Ocean temperatures of El Nino are predicted to cause high rainfall in Southern California – and forecasters say it may also come to the San Francisco Bay Area, where already a spate of heavy rains have hit in the past week.

But National Weather Service forecasts aside, one thing is sure – those living on the streets and “precariously housed” will continue to need a helping hand, particularly in the winter months.

In San Mateo County, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo is on the front lines, operating three homeless help centers in South San Francisco, San Mateo, and Redwood City. “On a daily basis, we provide basic survival help,” said Lorraine Moriarty, executive director. In case of a disaster, the SVDP centers are part of the San Mateo County disaster relief plan, she said.

“With El Nino, we are trying to gear up in such a way we can give folks a little extra,” Moriarty said. “In this wet weather, it is feet and hands which are the first to suffer, particularly feet.”

“People often have less than sturdy shoes in the wet weather,” Moriarty said, and feet that stay wet quickly develop troubles. Care kits handed out by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo fit in a gallon Ziploc bag because it has to be easily carried. A pair of warm socks, Band-Aids, emergency silver blankets, even a stick of chocolate

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St. Gregory School students Gio and Tommy hand out rain ponchos and umbrellas at SVdP’s San Mateo Homeless Help Center to keep the homeless dry in the rain.

are important items, Moriarty said. The Society also gives out warm sleeping bags.

“What Pope Francis is talking about with these field hospitals – we are trying with our homeless help centers to be those field hospitals,” Moriarty said, referencing an image that Pope Francis returns to over and over again.

For example, In a May 2 homily, Pope Francis said, “This is the mission of the church: the church that heals, that cares. I sometimes describe the church as a field hospital. True, there are many wounded, how many wounded! How many people who need their wounds to be healed! This is the mission of the church: to heal the wounded hearts, to open doors, to free [people], to say that God is good, God forgives all, that God

is our father, God is tender, that God is always waiting for us.”

That is the mission of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Moriarty said.

“First to be loved unconditionally and as a result of the encounter and accompaniment to look at what their needs are, mitigate the suffering, help carry the load of suffering,” Moriarty said. “So many people have such a load of suffering they are carrying.”

“There but by the grace of God go I,” said Moriarty. “Everything is gift” from God. The Society of Saint Vincent de Paul was founded in Paris in 1833 by a young French student, Frederic Ozanam, to confront his city’s devastating poverty.

Inspired by St. Vincent de Paul, a 17thcentury French priest who had an untiring commitment to serving the poor, Ozanam’s mission was to help the needy on a one-to-one basis and “accomplish through charity what justice alone cannot do.”

Today, the society is a network of

charity in 142 countries. The first San Mateo County St. Vincent de Paul conference was founded in 1931 at Holy Angels Parish in Colma.

The San Mateo St. Vincent de Paul Society has 32 parish based conferences, and works closely with schools and many corporations and other non-profits as well as the county and city governments of San Mateo County.

Among its ministries, it operates five retail stores in San Mateo County, is involved in restorative justice, offers a holistic re-entry program for previously incarcerated women at SVdP’s Catherine Center, provides food, clothing and rent assistance to the precariously housed through SVdP’s Peninsula Family Resource Center and the three homeless help centers.

The support of the Catholic schools is a particularly important piece, Moriarty said, and noted that schools and individuals can sign up online to volunteer in various ways, including helping out at the homeless help centers.

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Open doors: Welcoming unaccompanied minors to a new life This is the third of three Advent stories focusing on clients served by Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The theme of this series is “A Season of Mercy,” following in the footsteps of Pope Francis’ declaration of a Year of Mercy.

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When Luis came to Catholic Charities Refugee and Immigrant Services, he had quite a story to tell. For Luis,

living in Honduras was difficult and dangerous. When Luis was 12 years old, his father was killed by gunmen who wanted to extort money from him. In desperation, Luis’ mother had to leave Honduras for Spain so she could provide for Luis and his younger brother. But the boys, who were left in the care of their grandparents, were still living in fear.

In addition to being physically abused by his grandfather, Luis was constantly threatened and beaten up by violent

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gangs as he walked to and from school.

Recognizing this danger, Luis’ grandmother implored him and his brother to leave Honduras. The two terrified boys, age 12 and 6, boarded a cargo train alone, bound for the United States.

When they finally made it to the U.S., they surrendered to the immigration authorities and eventually found their way to Catholic Charities.

Staff members worked diligently to find them a home and to prepare a complete statement for their application for political asylum. The asylum claim was approved and the boys are no longer under the threat of getting deported to Honduras. For the first time in their lives they are secure and, equally important, they have hope for a safe and promising future.

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In San Francisco, 56 percent of seniors live below the poverty line, Robillard said. “Twenty-four percent of our seniors rely on these daily deliveries as their sole source of food,” Robillard said. “In the past decade, Meals On Wheels has nearly tripled the number of meals we deliver, from 570,000 meals in 2007 to 1.6 million meals by the end of 2015. This is due in part to three major economic and social barriers that are affecting seniors: A shrinking safety net, displacement from their families, and the skyrocketing cost of living.”

The mission of Meals on Wheels is to help seniors “to live independent and dignified lives as long as possible,” he said.

Twenty-four hundred seniors receive daily delivery of Meals on Wheels, a support that helps them stay independent and in their own homes in San Francisco.

Meals on Wheels also helps veterans particularly. A Homebound Heroes grant from the Home Depot Foundation is allocated exclusively for veterans and their families to make basic home improvements, for items like handrails in bathrooms and bannisters, said Karl Robillard, director of marketing and communications for Meals on Wheels SF. Founded in 1970, MOWSF is a local, independent nonprofit organization, affiliated with the national organization, and also offers safety checks and visits from social workers in addition to visits from the

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A year later: ISIS victims celebrate Christmas and new American life

Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

At this time last year, the Aprims, an Assyrian Christian family who fled their home when ISIS captured the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, were bewildered strangers in a new country frightened they would be returned to the violence of their old one.

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(Courtesy2015 photo) 7:00 PM dessert reception ADVENT/CHRISTMAS SCHEDULE OF- Concert THE Aand SSUMPTION S What a difference a year and the The Aprims, a Chaldean Catholic family who $20/person ($10 children and seniors) Tickets: 567-2020 Ex. 233 7:00 ADVENT/CHRISTMAS SCHEDULE 2015 generosity and love of others has fled ISIS last year, are shown in the home they Guadalupana Pilgrimage $20/person ($10 made. share with a maternal aunt in the South Bay on Las Posadas Saturday, December 5, 2015 Guadalupana Pilgrimage This Christmas, the Aprims Dec. 10.

Saturday, 6:00the AM - Pilgrimage departure from All Souls Church, S.S.F. Saturday,December December19, 5, 2015 2015 have a new American life and Mexican/Latin American tradition reenacting Mary and Joseph’s School and a Marin Knight, orgafreedom and safety to practice their 2:00 PM - Solemn Mass in the Cathedral Sa 6:00 AM - Pilgrimage departure from All Souls Church, S.S.F. nized the event, attended by the Chaldean Catholic faith. The U.S. journey to Bethlehem in search for lodging before Jesus’ birth Mexican/Latin A 2:00 PM Solemn Mass in the Cathedral and Carols family, Lessons with the goal of raising not Embassy granted them asylum and Advent journey to Bethl 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, St.and Francis Hall Sunday, 6, 2015 just moneyDecember but awareness of the work visas this summer. The three Advent Lessons Carols scope of the Christian genocide in teenage children, already fluent in 6:00 4:00 PM -Iraq.

Featuring the Cathedral Choir and St. Mark’s Sunday, 6, 2015 Blessing of December Expectant Parents English, are thriving “A” students Lutheran 4:00 PM - Featuring Choir and St. Mark’s Tassone andChurch MarinChoir Catholic at public schools in the South Bay at the allCathedral Masses Bless students, families, faculty and staff where they have been living with Solemnity Lutheran Church Choir of the Immaculate Sunday, December 20, 2015 raised an additional $10,000 in a relatives since they arrived last Conception of Mary Solemnity of the Immaculate S separate fundraising effort. year. Every member of the family ChristmasofEve Tuesday, December 2015 of “The Aprims are an8,example has a job.

Conception Mary how refugees fleeing the most bruIn a photo taken in front of the Thursday, 2015 HOLY DAY OF OBLIGATION Tuesday, December December 24, 8, 2015 tal militants in the world need help Christmas tree Dec. 10, the family’s Mass Schedule: 7:30 AM, 12:10 PM and 5:30 PM MassHOLY Schedule: and 12:10 PM T DAY7:30 OFAM OBLIGATION until they are able to stand on their smiles could reflect the knowledge Mass Schedule: 7:30 AM, 12:10 PM and 5:30 PM two feet and contribute to society,” that the father, who has been in Mass Archdiocesan Simbang Gabi The Cathedral will close after the 12:10 pm Mass and will reopen at 4:30 pm said Margaret Petros, executive dihiding, will be able to join them in Commissioning Mass Archdiocesan Simbang Gabi The Cathedral will cl rector of Mothers Against Murder California next year.

5:00 PM Caroling by the Archdiocesan Children’s Choir and Wednesday, December 2015 Commissioning Mass and a longtime victims’9,advocate.

Catholic San Francisco introthe St. Brigid School Honor Choir 5:00 PM Carolin Simbang Gabi, or Mass at Dawn, is a Filipino Petros, a native of the same tradition duced the family to readers last Wednesday, December 9, 2015 the Aprim family,for shepyear in a Dec. 3, 2014, story that 5:30 or PM - Christmas Mass tradition marking theregion start ofasa the novena to prepare Christmas.

Simbang Gabi, Mass at Dawn,Vigil is a Filipino herded them through the laborious detailed the efforts of the Marin 5: marking the PM startCaroling of a novena to Cathedral prepare for Christmas.

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Christians in raising more than 7:30 PM - Mass and Lighting of the Parol 11:30 P 12:00 AM - MidnightPrincipal Mass Celebrant “This beautiful family is doing $13,000 to benefit the family and Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Principal Celebrant great,” she said. “The right support other Christian refugees.

Saturday, December 12,made 2015all the given at the right time Joe Tassone, a global studies Feast Day of Our LadyDay of Guadalupe Archbishop S Christmas difference in the world.”of the Blessed Mother) teacher at Marin Catholic High 4:00 AM - Mañanitas (Mariachi Serenading Saturday, December 12, 2015

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Advent 2015

Advent Reconciliation Service, Friday, December 18, with individual confessions available, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. & 7:30 – 8:30 p.m., Church

Christmas 2015

Christmas Eve, Thursday, December 24 Advent Mass: 8:00 a.m.

Christmas Eve Vigil Masses: Family Masses at 4:00 p.m. & 6:00 p.m., 11:15 p.m. Carol service, followed by 12:00 a.m. Midnight Mass (Solemn Mass with choral music, strings and brass) (No confessions today) Christmas Day, Friday, December 25 Masses at 8:30 a.m. (Parish Mass with Carols), 11:00 a.m. (Solemn Mass with Choral Music), (No confessions today and no Masses at 1:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m. or 9:00 p.m.)

Solemnity of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph, Sunday, December 27, Our regular weekend schedule

New Year’s Eve Prayer Vigil, Thursday, December 31, 10:30 p.m., Church Solemnity of Mary, Holy Mother of God, Friday, January 1, 2016 (A Holy Day of Obligation) Parish Mass at 9:30 a.m.

Vigil Mass on Thursday, December 31, 5:30 p.m.

Solemnity of the Epiphany, Sunday, January 3, 2016 and Solemnity of the Baptism of the Lord, Sunday, January 10, 2016 Our regular weekend schedule This marks the end of the Christmas Season

Friday, December 25, 2015

4:00AM AM--Gregorian MañanitasChant (Mariachi of theSchola BlessedCantorum Mother) 9:00 MassSerenading with Cathedral (NO 6:45 AM Mass today) 6:00 AM Spanish Mass Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Principal Celebrant Reception to follow, offering complimentary Mexican specialties 11:00 AM - Solemn Mass with Cathedral Choir 8:00 AM - English Mass 1:00 - MisaBilingual en Español con el Coro Hispano 7:00 PMPM Solemn Mass celebrating the Third after theof 1:00 PM Mass The Cathedral will close Sunday of Advent and our Lady Guadalupe Reception to follow,New featuring Mariachi band andoncomplimentary Schedule continued the back Year’s Eve Mexican specialties Seventh Day within the Octave of the Nativity Thursday, December 31, 2015

Mass Schedule: 7:30 AM and 12:10 PM The Cathedral will close after the 12:10 PM Mass

New Year’s Day Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God Friday, January 1, 2016

HOLY DAY OF OBLIGATION Mass Schedule: 7:30 AM, 12:10 PM Solemn Mass The Cathedral will close after the12:10 PM Mass

The Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord Sunday, January 3, 2016

Saturday, January 2 - Vigil - 5:30 PM Sunday - 7:30 AM, 9:00 AM, 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM (Español) 4:00 PM - Concert: Sonora Piano Trio, with Jeanette Wilkin Tietze, piano; Suzanna Barker, violin; Anne Lerner-Wright, cello.

The Baptism of the Lord Sunday, January 10, 2016

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Vatican chooses SF artists for Year of Mercy light show Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

A San Francisco creative studio was chosen by the Vatican to create a photographic interpretation of Pope Francis’ encyclical “Laudato Si’” (“On Care for our Common Home”) for the opening of the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy at St. Peter’s Basilica Dec. 8.

Obscura Digital co-founders Chris Lejeune and Travis Threlkel flew to Rome a few days earlier to present the 60-minute public art show entitled: “Fiat Lux: Illuminating Our Common Home” to Pope Francis as a gift, a spokesperson for the studio told Catholic San Francisco.

“Fiat Lux” – the title means “let there be light” – brought the pope’s message to life with what the founders call “visual opera.” Powerful images of humanity and nature taken by award-winning photographers such as National Geographic’s Steve McCurry were curated by Threlkel and woven together by filmmaker Louie Psihoyos and projected onto an enormous canvas provided by St. Peter’s.

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One of the pleasures of the Christmas Season is the opportunity to send our thoughts and prayers to those whose friendship and good will we value so highly.

The priests and staff of St. Dunstan Parish join in wishing you a very blessed Christmas. May the gift of faith, the blessing of hope, and the peace of God’s love be with you and yours throughout the New Year.

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An image from “Fiat Lux,” a public art show that interpreted Pope Francis’ encyclical “Laudato Si’,” was displayed at St. Peter’s Basilica Dec. 8 for the opening of the Year of Mercy.

Threlkel said “Fiat Lux” follows the Catholic Church’s long tradition of communication

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through art, from stained glass and frescoes to soaring architecture.

“Pope Francis is trying to create a dialogue and we were honored to support his endeavor,” said Threlkel. “We’re showing the diversity and glory of God’s creation on the planet, and we’re hoping to inspire the world to have reverence for all things.”

Obscura Digital is located in the city’s Dogpatch District and employs 60 full-time artists and technologists. The studio’s mission is to “project change” by working with forward-thinking “visionaries” in bringing historic moments to life on tall buildings and public spaces, according to its website.

Fiat Lux coincided with the 2015 U.N. climate change conference held near Paris Nov. 30-Dec. 11.

“We are humbled and grateful for the opportunity to work with Pope Francis and the Pontifical Council,” said Lejeune. “It’s important for us to collaborate with global change-makers and there are few more popular or influential than Pope Francis.”

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Christmas Eve, Thursday Dec. 24th 4:00 p.m.

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Friday, January 1, 2016 8:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. and 11:30 a.m. at Marian Convent The Capuchin Franciscans & Parish Staff wish our Parishioners and Friends Peace, Love and Hope for Christmas and the New Year.

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Simbang Gabi/Las Posadas December 21st, 22nd, 23rd @ 6:30 pm

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Confessions 4:00 - 4:45 p.m. * Mass 5:00 p.m.

Christmas Eve Christmas Recital @ 7:00 pm • Mass @ 8:00 pm Inspirational Voices of Shipwreck Gospel Choir Light refreshments following Christmas Day 9:00 am Traditional Mass • 1:00 pm Igbo Mass Feast of the Holy Family/Kwanzaa Celebration Sunday, December 27th • 10:45 am Gospel Mass Deacon Larry Chatmon, Homilist

Sunday, December 20

Masses: 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. (Cantonese) 10:30 a.m.

Christmas Eve Thursday, december 24

5:00 p.m. Family Christmas Eve Mass with Saint Monica Honors Choir and Nativity Play 8:00 p.m. Vietnamese Mass 11:30 p.m. The Saint Monica Choir will present festive music of the season 12:00 a.m. Solemn Midnight Mass

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New Year’s Day Friday, January 1, 2016

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Adult faith formation at St. Anselm meets ‘great need’ Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

Every Monday night at St. Anselm Church in Ross, a roomful of adults– many of whom have been Catholic their entire lives – circle around tables in the parish hall to learn about their faith.

The group, which includes converts and the newly confirmed ranging in age from 40-90, was started three years ago by religious education director Nicholas Case. Case recognized that for many adult Catholics, the faith formation they received as children is not enough to sustain a lively, lifelong faith.

“Our faith is organic and it needs to be rebooted and recharged over the years,” said Case, a former philosophy professor and Protestant convert now awaiting acceptance into the seminary.

Case said one of the greatest needs of the church in the United States today is catechesis. “I don’t know how many times I’ve heard people, even in their 70s or 80s say to me, ‘I have no idea why we do this or say that,’” he said.

A year-long investigation by Marin County pastors in 2014 into the reasons for low Mass attendance and participation in the Eucharist in their parishes discovered the same thing, particularly among those formed as a child, like St. Anselm parishioner Elizabeth Meloney, a parishioner in her 50s.

“I had gotten most of my education growing up in the church,” said Meloney who was married at St. Anselm but gradually began participating less in the faith community. “About 10 years ago this inner yearning started,” she said. “I wanted to know more and to deepen my relationship with

Three Paths to Holiness” to the group. Much of Bishop Barron’s DVD content has been paired with written materials to be used by parishes or other small groups for adult faith formation.

At the end of each “semester,” the current one ending later this month, Case asks each person how they have grown and where they see themselves going from here.

“I’ve never had anyone say they haven’t had some sort of movement in their faith,” he said.

Case is inspired and impressed by his adult students. With the Rite for Christian Initiation for Adults and other programs, he said, “there is a bit of carrot at the end,” you get to become a Catholic or receive a sacrament.

“Here, there is no carrot at the end other than their own faith formation,” he said. “It’s actually sort of amazing to see a group of people who actually just want to grow in their Catholic faith.”

‘Our faith is organic and it needs to be rebooted and recharged over the years.’

Nicholas Case St. Anselm Parish

Christ and become part of the church community again.”

She and her husband attended San Diego Bishop Robert W. McElroy’s three-part “Forward in Faith” adult faith formation series held in parishes throughout the archdiocese in 2013. They were thrilled when Case started the adult faith formation program at St. Anselm and come together each week.

“Sometimes the process creates even more questions, but that’s all right,” said Meloney.

Katherine Willman of Fairfax, recently confirmed at St. Anselm, is grateful her religious education can continue with the support of other Catholic adults.

“I was still confused about a lot of things,” she said.

For the first year and a half, Case took the group through the Catholic Catechism for Adults textbook by the U.S. bishops. That piqued the curiosity of Claire Muller, a lively octogenarian and longtime St. Anselm parishioner.

“I am a cradle Catholic and I know the Baltimore Catechism inside and out,” she said. “But there is a lot I didn’t know.”

This year Case introduced Bishop Robert Barron’s three-part study series, “Untold Blessing:

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Advent / Christmas / Epiphany Seasons Parish Celebrations 2015/16 Sunday, December 20 Fourth Sunday of Advent – Regular Schedule

Thursday, December 24 Christmas Vigil Mass – 8:00 pm

Friday, December 25 Christmas Midnight Mass – 12:00 midnight Christmas Day Mass – 10:00 am

Sunday, December 27 Feast of the Holy Family – Regular Schedule

Friday, January 1, 2016 Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God (Holy Day) and Octave of Christmas – 10:00 am

Sunday, January 3, 2016 Solemnity of the Epiphany – Regular Schedule

Saturday, January 9, 2016 Anointing of the Sick Mass (no 8:00 am Mass) 10:00 am

Sunday, January 10, 2016 Feast of the Baptism of the Lord – Regular Schedule

Monday, January 11, 2016 Ordinary Time begins.

Regular Schedule means: 4:00 p.m. Vigil Mass on Saturday,; 8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Masses on Sunday

St. Bruno’s Church

ST. TERESA OF AVILA CATHOLIC CHURCH

(650) 588-2121

555 W. San Bruno Avenue, San Bruno, CA 94066

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December 18 - 23

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December 22 - 24

Tuesdays & Fridays

December 24 Christmas Eve

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

8:30am

Christmas Masses

Vigil, December 24th

December 25, Friday, Christmas Day Masses:

January 8th 2016, Friday:

PLEASE JOIN US FOR OUR ADVENT & CHRISTMAS MASSES

Unto Us A Child Is Born

December 25th

4:15 Children’s Mass 9:00 pm Choir Mass 8:30 & 10:00 am

New Year’s Day

9:00am

For more information: Call: 415-285-5272 · E-mail: info@stteresasf.org · www.stteresasf.org

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clergy appointments announced The Office of the Vicar for Clergy announced the following clergy appointments effective Jan.1, 2016, unless otherwise noted, on behalf of Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone.

Msgr. C. Michael Padazinski, administrator, St. Brendan Church, San Francisco while continuing as judicial vicar of the Metropolitan Tribunal and chancellor of the archdiocese.

Father Erick Arauz, parochial vicar, St. Timothy Church, San Mateo, effective Dec. 1, 2015.

Father Teodoro Magpayo, sabbatical, Jan. 1-June 30, 2016.

Father Augusto Villote, sabbatical, Jan. 1-June 30, 2016. Both priests will study at the North American College in Rome Jan. 11-March 21, 2016.

Daughters: Deal saves financially troubled hospitals Daughters of Charity Health System has closed a transaction with BlueMountain Capital Management/ Integrity Healthcare and created Verity Health System, saving the system’s six financially troubled hospitals.

The transaction, approved by California Attorney General Kamala Harris Dec. 3, preserves the system’s mission of care while protecting labor agreements and pensions for thousands of current and former employees, Daughters announced Dec. 14.

Under the terms of the transaction, BlueMountain is contributing up to $260 million of capital and sponsoring Integrity, an entity owned by BlueMountain to manage Verity’s six California hospitals and medical foundation.

St. John of God Church

St. Bartholomew Parish Community

Corner of Alameda & Crystal Springs Rd. San Mateo, CA 94402 (650) 347-0701 stbarts@barts.org

CHRISTMAS LITURGIES Christmas Eve, December 24th Children’s Mass 4:00 & 6:00 pm Caroling at 11:15 pm followed by Midnight Mass 12:00 am Christmas Day December 25th 8:00, 9:30 & 11:15 am no evening Mass.

New Year's Eve, December 31st 5:30 pm New Year's Day, January 1st 10:00 am

1290 5th Ave. San Francisco

Christmas Schedule

Vigil of Christmas

Tuesday, Thursday,

December

“We thank Attorney General Harris for approving the transaction,” said DCHS president and CEO Robert Issai. “This large infusion of capital will provide a great jump-start on the many strategic, operational and capital initiatives desperately needed in our hospitals.”

Effective immediately, the DCHS hospitals, DCHS Medical Foundation and other subsidiaries are part of Verity, a new, nonreligious, not-forprofit California healthcare system governed by a new, independent board of directors. Integrity will provide management services and operational support to Verity for a minimum of 15 years. Verity has pledged to preserve the hospitals’ mission of charity care, honor existing labor agreements and

preserve the pensions of over 17,000 current and former employees.

“Verity will proudly continue the mission of care begun by the Daughters of Charity more than 150 years ago,” said Mitchell R. Creem, CEO of Verity Health System. “I am extremely pleased and grateful for the opportunity to carry on this tradition of excellence, with new leadership and significant investments.”

The Los Altos-based Daughters health system consists of Seton Medical Center, Daly City; Seton Coastside, Moss Beach; O’Connor Hospital, San Jose; Saint Louise Regional Hospital, Gilroy; St. Vincent Medical Center, Los Angeles; St. Francis Medical Center, Lynwood; and the DCHS Medical Foundation based in San Jose.

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St. Augustine Church

3700 Callan Blvd.

S. San Francisco, CA 94080

Christmas 2015

Novena of masses (Simbang Gabi) December 15-23 – 7:30 P.M.

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4:30 P.M. Vigil Mass 7:30 P.M. Children’s Caroling 8 P.M. Children’s Mass 11:00 P.M. Caroling 12 A.M. Midnight Mass (Church & Hall)

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St. Raymond Church 1100 Santa Cruz Avenue Menlo Park, CA 94025 650-323-1755

Christopher Fadok, O.P., Pastor Please join us this Christmas Season to Celebrate the Birth of the Christ Child. Joy to the World!

Christmas Day: December 25

Christmas Eve:

4:30 Children’s Christmas Nativity Play 5:15, 7:30 and Midnight Masses

Solemnity of Mary, January 1, 2016

Christmas Day:

8 AM and 10 AM Masses

7:45 A.M., 9:30 A.M., 11 A.M., 12:30 P.M. There is no 5:30 P.M. Mass on Christmas Day. Schedule of Masses: 9:30 A.M., 11:00 A.M., 12:30 P.M.

We hope you are able to join us!

Church of the Epiphany 827 Vienna Street. San Francisco 94112

Our Lady of Loretto Church

2015 CHRISTMAS MASS SCHEDULE

OLL Choir Christmas Concert

December 15th-23rd at 7:00pm, with Confessions on Dec. 22nd at 10:00am & 6:00pm

1806 Novato Boulevard, Novato, CA 94947

Parish Novena Masses: Thursday, December 24th—Christmas Eve:

Sunday, December 20th 4pm and 7:30pm

5:30pm (Children’s Mass), 9:00pm & 12:00 Midnight (11:30pm Caroling)

Christmas Eve Masses

6:30am, 8:30am, 10:00am, 11:30am (Spanish), & 1:00pm

Thursday, December 24th 5pm – Children’s Mass in both Church and Hall 7pm Mass 9pm Spanish

Christmas Day Masses

Saturday December 25th 8am, 10am and 12 Noon Spanish

Friday, December 25th—Christmas Day: Friday, January 1st—Solemnity of Mary (Holy Day of Obligation): 6:30am, 8:00am, 11:00am, 5:30pm & 7:30pm (Spanish)

Saturday, January 2nd—Feast of the Epiphany: 5:30pm Mass followed by a reception in the Cafeteria.

“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning” —James 1:17 Please call the Parish Office for more information: (415) 333-7630

Merry Christmas!

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Meet violence, hate in world ‘with resolve, courage,’ archbishop urges Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON – Violence and hate in the world “must be met with resolve and courage,” said Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, who is president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

As Catholics and other Christians anticipate “the miracle of Christmas,” announcing the need for peace and goodwill throughout the world this “blessed season of Advent,” he said, calls for “even stronger voices” this year in light of the mass shootings in San Bernardino, California.

“We pray that family and friends facing the pain of loss and the journey of recovery find strength in the compassion of their community,” Archbishop Kurtz said in a Dec. 14

statement. “We draw especially close to the local church, which has borne the burden of mourning the loss of those who died and of comforting their families, yet has the strength to reach out in love.”

On Dec. 2, in what the FBI and other law enforcement officials have termed a terrorist attack, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, 29, shot up a county social services center in San Bernardino with assault rifles. Fourteen people were killed and another 21 were injured.

Farook and Malik died in a shootout with police a couple of hours after they attacked the center.

As authorities continued to investigate the motives of the shooters and whether they were part of a terror cell, funeral services were held for at

least three of those shot dead by the couple, including Tin Nguyen, whose funeral Mass was celebrated Dec. 12 at St. Barbara Catholic Church in Santa Ana, California.

In his statement, Archbishop Kurtz also pointed to the Nov. 27 shootings at a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado, during which a police offer was shot dead along with two civilians.

Alleged shooter Robert Lewis Dear was arrested and charged with the

killings. In an outburst during his first appearance in court Dec. 9, Dear said he was “a warrior for the babies.”

“Here, too, the Christmas story inspires us to give of ourselves, as Jesus gave up his body, so we may bring comfort and joy to those in need,” Archbishop Kurtz said. “We must not respond in fear. We are called to be heralds of hope and prophetic voices against senseless violence, a violence which can never be justified by invoking the name of God.”

Saint Stephen Catholic Church 4th Sunday of Advent 12/19-20 Regular Weekend Mass Schedule Saturday 3:30pm Confessions 4:30pm (Sunday Vigil) Sunday 8:00, 9:30, 11:30am, 6:45pm Christmas Eve 3:30pm Confessions 4:30pm Family Mass 10:00pm Mass (Prelude music 9:30pm)

Eucalyptus Drive @ 23rd Avenue (near Stonestown Mall) 415.681.2444 www.SaintStephenSF.org

Christmas 2015

Christmas Day 9:00 & 11:00am Mass No evening Mass on Christmas Day Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph 12/26-27 Regular Weekend Mass Schedule Saturday 3:30pm Confessions 4:30pm (Sunday Vigil) Sunday 8:00, 9:30, 11:30am, 6:45pm

St. Patrick Church

756 Mission Street, San Francisco Mission Dolores Basilica Advent – Christmas Schedule / Horario de la Temporada Adviento – Navideña 2015 - 2016

Mission DoloresFeast Basilica of the Immaculate Conception Tuesday / Martes Advent – Christmas Schedule / Fiesta de la Inmaculada Concepción 8 Mission Dec 2015 Dolores Basilica Masses: 7:30, 9 a.m., 7 p.m. (bi-lingual) Horario de la Temporada Adviento – Navideña

/ 2015 - Advent 2016 – Christmas Schedule of Our Lady of Guadalupe Saturday / Sabado Horario de la TemporadaFeast Adviento – Navideña Fiesta de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe 12 Dec 2015 2015 - 2016 4:45 a.m. Mañanitas y Misa Solemne Tuesday / Martes 8 DecMonday 2015 / Lunes / Martes 14Tuesday Dec 2015 8 Dec 2015 Saturday / Sabado Saturday/Sabado 12 Dec 2015 19Saturday Dec 2015/ Sabado 12 Dec 2015 Monday / Lunes 14 DecSunday 2015 / Domingo / Lunes 20Monday Dec 2015 14 Dec 2015 Saturday/Sabado 19 Dec 2015 Saturday/Sabado 19 Dec 2015 Wed./Mier.

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16 Dec - 23 Dec 2013 Sunday / Domingo 20 Dec 2015 Thursday/Jueves Sunday / Domingo 24 Dec 2015 20 Dec 2015

Feast of the Immaculate Conception Fiesta de la Inmaculada Concepción Advent Reconciliation Service the Immaculate Conception Masses: Feast 7:30, of 9 a.m., 7 p.m. (bi-lingual) 7:00 p.m.

Fiesta de la Inmaculada Concepción Feast ofMasses: Our Lady of Guadalupe 7:30, 9 a.m., 7 p.m. (bi-lingual) Installation asGuadalupe Pastor of Mission Dolores Parish FiestaFr. deGarbo Nuestra Señora de & 25th Anniversary ofofSolemne Sacerdotal Feast of Our yLady GuadalupeOrdination 4:45 a.m.

Mañanitas Misa 10:30 a.m.

Fiesta de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe

4:45 a.m. Mañanitas Advent Reconciliation Servicey Misa Solemne 7:00 p.m.

Basilica Choir 24th Annual Candlelight Christmas Concert Advent Reconciliation Service Concierto Navideño del Coro de la Basilica 7:00 p.m.

Fr. Garbo Installation as Pastor of Mission Dolores Parish 5:00 p.m. & 25th Anniversary of Sacerdotal Ordination Fr. Garbo Installation as Pastor of Mission Dolores Parish 10:30 a.m.

25th Anniversary of Sacerdotal Ordination Las&Posadas 10:30 7:00 p.m.a.m.

Basilica Choir 24th Annual Candlelight Christmas Concert Concierto Navideño del Coro de la Basilica Christmas Eve / Víspera de Navidad 5:00 p.m.Basilica Choir 24th Annual Candlelight Christmas Concert 5:00 p.m.

Family Christmas Mass - Children’s Choir Concierto Navideño del Coro de la Basilica 11:30 p.m. Christmas Carol Sing - Basilica Choirs 5:00 p.m.

12:00 Midnight Solemn Mass / Misa Solemne (bilingüe) Las Posadas Wed./Mier. - Wed./Mier.

7:00 p.m.

16 Dec - 23 Dec 2013 Christmas Day / Día de Navidad Friday/Viernes Las Posadas Wed./Mier. - Wed./Mier.

10:00 a.m. Mass in English 25 Dec 2015 7:00 p.m.

Christmas Eve / Víspera de Navidad 16 Dec - 23 Dec 2013 Thursday/Jueves 12:00 noon Misa en Español 5:00 p.m.

Family Christmas Mass - Children’s Choir 24 Dec 2015 Christmas Eve Carol / Víspera Navidad 11:30 p.m.

Christmas Singde - Basilica Choirs Thursday/Jueves New Year’s Day Mass: Feast of Mary the Mother of God Friday/Viernes p.m.

Family Christmas MassSolemne - Children’s Choir 12:00 5:00 Midnight Solemn Mass / Misa (bilingüe) 24 Dec 2015 Misa del Año Nuevo: Fiesta de la Madre de Dios 1 Jan 2016 11:30 p.m. Christmas Carol Sing - Basilica Choirs 9:00 a.m.

Mass in English 12:00 Midnight Solemn Mass / Misa Solemne (bilingüe) Christmas de Navidad Friday/Viernes 12:00Day / Día Misa en Español 10:00 a.m.

Mass in English 25 Dec 2015 Christmas Day DíaReyes de Navidad 12:00 Epiphany noon Misa en Español Friday/Viernes / Día de/ los Sunday / Domingo 10:00 a.m.

Mass in English 25 Dec 2015 5:00 pm.

Vigil Mass (Sat. 2 Jan) 3 Jan 2016 12:00 noon Misa en Español New Year’s Day Feast of Mary Mother of God Friday/Viernes 8:00 a.m. & Mass: 10:00 a.m.

Mass in the English Misa del Año Nuevo: Fiesta de la Madre de Dios 1 Jan 2016 12:00 Misa en Español Year’sin Day Mass: Feast of Mary the Mother of God 9:00 a.m.NewMass English Friday/Viernes del Año Nuevo: Fiesta de la Madre de Dios 12:00 MisaMisa en Español 1 Jan 2016 9:00 a.m.

Mass in English 12:00 en Español Epiphany / Día de losMisa Reyes Sunday / Domingo 5:00 pm.

Vigil Mass (Sat. 2 Jan) 3 Jan 2016

Christmas Schedule Saturday, December 19

4:00-5:00 p.m. Advent Confessions (all priests)

December 16 - 24

6:00 a.m. Misa de Gallo, followed by

hot breakfast in the Parish Hall

Thursday, December 24

6:00 a.m. Misa de Gallo, followed by

hot breakfast in the Parish Hall 7:30 a.m. Mass 12:10 p.m. Mass - Please note: There will be no Mass at 5:15 p.m.

7:00 p.m. Christmas Carols 8:00 p.m. Traditional “Mass at Midnight”

Friday, December 25

Christmas Day ~ Holy Day of Obligation 7:30, 9:00, 10:30 a.m. and 12:15 p.m.

Please note: There will be no Mass 5:15 p.m.

Thursday, December 31

Glory to God in the highest: and on earth peace to people of good will

7:30 a.m., 12:10 and 5:15 p.m.

Friday, January 1, 2016

New Year’s Day ~ Holy Day of Obligation 7:30 a.m., 12:10 and 5:15 p.m.

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Report: Sisters’ numbers shrinking but growing more diverse Mark Pattison Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON – A new report on U.S. women religious said that religious life is becoming not only more multiethnic but more international as well.

The report, “Understanding U.S. Catholic Sisters Today,” said that of all women who entered religious life in the past 10 years, only 57 percent were white, while 17 percent were Hispanic, 16 percent were Asian, and 8 percent were black – including both African-American women and those born in Africa.

Because of the growing numbers of foreign-born women religious, the report noted, Trinity Washington University recently received a grant to study and map the presence of international women religious in the United States and their evolving ministries in response to church and societal needs.

The report, released Dec. 9, was commissioned

by FADICA, Foundations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities, which represents about 50 philanthropic organizations.

Two aspects of U.S. religious life today, according to the report, have not changed: the increasing average age of women religious and their declining numbers.

“Only 9 percent of religious sisters are younger than 60; more than two-thirds of women and men vowed religious are older than 65,” the report said.

State court denies review of church-closure protest

BOSTON– The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the state’s highest court, has denied a request for further appellate review of a case brought by a group fighting the closure of its Catholic parish church in the Boston archdiocese.

The Friends of St. Frances X. Cabrini Inc. of Scituate confirmed the denial in a Dec. 4 statement and said that “at this juncture (they) are taking this decision under advisement with their attorney and reviewing as a community potential options and next steps.”

St. Frances X. Cabrini Parish was closed – suppressed in canon law terms – under the archdiocese’s broad restructuring plan. It was one of 70 churches that closed beginning in 2004 in a

(CNS photo/Jim West)

Benedictine nuns pray in the chapel in late March at the Abbey of St. Walburga on a ranch in Virginia Dale, Colorado.

“Women’s religious life is presently completing a fifth consecutive decade of decline,” it added. “The number of U.S. sisters has decreased by 72.5 percent in the last 49 years, and while there are recent signs that the pace of decline has slowed, there is nothing suggesting that is likely to be reversed.”

At the same time, “the most encouraging conclusion drawn from recent studies of U.S. Catholic sisters is that ... many U.S. Catholic women are still drawn to religious life,” the report said. Research shows that “while there is a great deal of concern about the future of individual communities and

downsizing plan carried out under Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley. Archdiocesan officials cited declining attendance, aging priests and rising maintenance costs as reasons for closing dozens of parishes.

Since October 2004, St. Frances X. Cabrini parishioners have kept an around-the-clock presence in the church in the hope that various appeals based on canon law would be successful.

Alaska priest who visited parishes by plane and by kayak dies at 46

ministries, the majority of sisters remain optimistic about religious life,” it added.

The report placed the figure of women religious in the United States today at roughly 50,000 – about the same number as there had been in 1939, when U.S. population numbers were lower but vocations were on an upswing. Crowded novitiates “and overflowing convents” in the mid-20th century were an “anomaly,” it noted.

“Decreased contact with sisters not only reduces the number of women entering religious life, but also may make adjusting to religious life more difficult for those who do enter. Increasing sisters’ contact with nonmembers should be a priority,” the report said.

While those women who do join religious life are often older and better educated than those of past generations, they also bring with them student debt.

“While congregations do not want to turn away new members who offer vitality to a waning congregation, they must consider how much benefit a candidate brings to an institute compared to the burden of educational debt,” it said.

Another potential source of worry for vocations is that “young Catholic women show a greater disaffection than males within their generational cohort.

This represents a historic reversal,” the report said.

“In the past, women of every U.S. Christian denomination have prayed and attended religious services more often and held more orthodox beliefs than their male counterparts.”

Wrangell to celebrate Mass each weekend. On occasion, he would paddle three to four hours by kayak to reach the parishes.

Lincoln diocese eliminates tribunal fees

LINCOLN, Nebraska – As the Catholic Church began the Holy Year of Mercy, the Diocese of Lincoln announced it will offer its marriage tribunal process “to all who need it, without requiring payments or assessing fees.”

Bishop James D. Conley of Lincoln discussed the decision in his Dec. 11 column in the Southern Nebraska Register, the diocesan newspaper.

“The Year of Mercy requires that each of us help the world to live according to the will of God,” he said. “May our tribunal assist in that process, and may our witness to the gift of marriage, given freely by the Lord, call families to holiness, sacrifice and charity.”

Bishop Conley noted that eliminating tribunal fees also was in keeping with current diocesan policy to waive fees in other circumstances.

PHOENIX – The Diocese of Juneau, Alaska, is mourning the loss of a young priest, an outdoorsman who spread the Gospel in tiny Alaskan communities as well as online. Father Thomas L. Weise Jr. died Dec. 6 in San Luis Obispo, California, after suffering cardiac arrest while on a family visit. He was 46.

One of 10 priests in the diocese, Father Weise served as pastor of two of southeast Alaska’s small island parishes, St. Catherine of Siena in Petersburg and St. Rose of Lima in Wrangell. Referring to Between South Mayfair and Southgate Avenues, himself as a missionary priest, Father Weise often traveled by small plane between Petersburgwith andplenty of free parking!

Our Lady of Mercy Parish

SAINT VERONICA CHURCH 434 Alida Way South San Francisco, CA 94080 650-588-1455 www.stveronicassf.com

CHRISTMAS LITURGY SCHEDULE Dec. 15-23, 2015 SIMBANG GABI ADVENT MASSES

Weekday Masses at 6:30 p.m.

Saturday Mass (Dec. 19) at 5:00 p.m.

Sunday Mass (Dec. 20) at 4:00 p.m.

Dec. 23 Celebrant - Archbishop Cordileone *****

THURSDAY, DEC. 24, 2015 CHRISTMAS EVE MASSES

4:00 p.m. (Children’s Mass) & 9:00 p.m.

8:15 p.m. - Adult Choir Performance *****

FRIDAY, DEC. 25, 2015 CHRISTMAS DAY

7:00, 8:30, 10:00, 11:30 a.m. & 1:00 p.m.

3:00 p.m. (Spanish) *****

THURSDAY, DEC. 31, 2015 8:30 a.m. *****

FRIDAY, JAN. 1, 2016 (A HOLY DAY OF OBLIGATION) 8:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.

5 Elmwood Drive, Daly City

®®® Mon., Dec. 14: 7:30 p.m. Communal Penance Service (with Simbang Gabi and Christmas Mass Schedule Individual Confession & Absolution).

Mater Our Lady of Mercy Parish � Tue., Dec. 15, to Wed., Dec. 23: 5 Elmwood Drive, Daly City

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307 Willow Avenue, South San Francisco, CA 94080 7:30 p.m. Simbang Gabi Masses (except for Between South Mayfair ad South Avenues Advent Penance Service at Mater Dolorosa Saturday at 5:30), followed by a Reception with plenty of free parking!

14th - 7:00 p.m. downstairs in our ChurchDecember Hall.

Simbang Gabi Masses Tuesday, December 15, to Wednesday Dec. 23: � Thursday, December 24:

December 15th through December 23rd at 7:00 p.m.

7:00pm Rosary and Confession (except Saturday, 2:30pm) 4:00 p.m. Christmas Eve Mass our (Pot Luck with Dinner follows December 23rd Mass) 7:30pm Simbang Gabi Masses (except Saturday, 5:30pm), Children’s Choir. followed by a Reception downstairs in our Church Hall.

Christmas Masses

5:30 p.m. Christmas Eve Mass.

Holy Day of Obligation 11:30 p.m. Sing-Along Christmas Carols Eve Masses Christmas 4:00pm Christmas Eve Mass with our Children’s Choir.with our Parish Choir.

December 24th 5:30pm Christmas Eve Mass 5:00 p.m.

Vigil Mass with Children’s Pageant 12:00 a.m. Midnight Mass 9:15 withp.m. our toChoir.

9:45 p.m. Christmas Caroling Thursday, December 24:

11:30pm Sing-Along Christmas Carols with our Parish Choir.

12:00am Midnight Mass with our Choir� Friday, December

Friday, December 25: Christmas Day Masses at 7:30am and 9:00am 10:30am with our Children’s Choir 12:00pm with our Parish Choir

Thursday, December 31: 7:00am and 9:00am 6:00pm Vigil Mass for New Year - Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God

Friday, January 1, 2016 - Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God 9:00am & 12:00pm

10:00 p.m. (Midnight Mass) 25: Christmas DayChristmas Masses at Day Masses 7:30 a.m. December 25th 8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m., and 12:00 p.m.

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Time for forgiveness has begun, pope says as holy doors open worldwide Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – With the opening the Holy Door at the Basilica of St. John Lateran, Pope Francis declared that the time for tenderness, joy and forgiveness had begun. As holy doors around the world were opened at city cathedrals, major churches and sanctuaries Dec. 13, the pope said this simple gesture of opening God’s house to the world serves as “an invitation to joy. The time of great pardon begins. It is the Jubilee of Mercy.”

Dressed in rose vestments on Gaudete Sunday, the third Sunday of Advent, marking the joyful expectation of Christmas, the pope began the ceremony outside the basilica in front of the bronze holy door. The door depicts a bas relief of the crucified Christ looking down on Mary tenderly holding the baby Jesus, whose small foot shone like bright gold from the countless kisses and touches of visiting pilgrims.

“This is the door of the Lord. Open for me the gates of justice. I will enter your house, Lord, because of your

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A man carrying a censer sings during a procession before the Dec. 12 Mass in celebration of the opening of the Holy Door at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Quebec City for the Jubilee of Mercy.

Pope to visit marginalized communities in Mexico in February

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis will visit some of the most marginalized communities in Mexico and seek to bring hope to a country deeply suffering from crime, corruption and inequality when he visits in February.

The Vatican announced Dec. 12 details about the pope’s Feb. 12-17 trip to Mexico, during which he will stop in six cities, including two in the state of Chiapas and – across from El Paso, Texas – Ciudad Juarez, which just five years ago was considered the “murder capital of the world” as drug cartels disputed a trafficking corridor. The pope said in November that he wanted to visit cities where St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI never went. But he said he will stop at the capital of Mexico City to pray at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

“But if it wasn’t for Our Lady I wouldn’t” go there, he had told reporters.

No euthanasia for ‘psychological suffering’

OXFORD, England – Belgium’s Catholic bishops welcomed a statement by top medical professors, psychiatrists and ethicists, who rejected a proposal to allow euthanasia for patients facing “psychological suffering. We’re always opposed to euthanasia, so we approve and support this initiative,” Jesuit Father Tommy Scholtes, spokesman for the Brussels-based bishops’ conference, told Catholic News Service Dec.

11. “Although the church holds no position on the scientific arguments around euthanasia, we can see these medical practitioners have explained them effectively here. Although strong suffering can be very difficult to bear, palliative care will always offer a better answer.”

In a Dec. 8 letter in Belgium’s De Morgen daily, 65 medical experts demanded the revision of legislation allowing euthanasia in cases of “incurable psychological suffering.” The signatories said a significant proportion of the 2,000 euthanasia deaths annually in Belgium involved patients complaining of depression and mental pain. They added that the term “incurable psychological suffering” had “no scientific foundation,” since it was impossible to judge when a patient had “resisted all treatment.”

Iraqi patriarch: Christian persecution has reached ‘critical, violent’ point

ROME – The survival of Christianity in the Middle East has reached such a critical point that the chances of dialogue and reconciliation in the region are being threatened, said Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako of Baghdad. “The situation is very bad, very critical and always violent,” Patriarch Sako told Catholic News Service Dec. 10. “Last year in August, 120,000 Christian people were expelled from their

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great mercy,” the pope read solemnly before climbing two marble steps and pushing open the large door. He crossed the threshold decorated with a garland of flowers and greenery and bowed his head in silent prayer inside the darkened interior of the basilica.

The church and the people of God are called to be joyful, the pope said in his brief homily.

The Holy Year of Mercy is meant to be a time for people to rediscover God’s real presence in the world and his tenderness, he said.

“God does not love rigidity. He is father. He is gentle. He does everything with fatherly tenderness.”

As Christians are called to cross the threshold of “the door of mercy,” they are asked to welcome and experience God’s love, which “re-creates, transforms and reforms life.”

From there, people of faith must then go out and be “instruments of mercy, aware that we will be judged by this,” the pope said. Being a Christian calls for a lifelong journey and a “more radical commitment” to be merciful like God the father, he added.

homes, their villages and now they are living in some camps with nothing, but the church is helping them.”

Patriarch Sako was among the keynote speakers at a Dec. 10-12 international conference on Christian persecution in the world. He told CNS that the mass exodus of Christians in the region will only worsen the situation due to growing tensions between Sunni and Shiite Muslims who “are killing each other. We Christians, we always bridged the groups and we promoted dialogue, reconciliation and forgiveness,” he said.

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The three Masses of Christmas

ur feast of Christmas came from a pagan observance which was Christianized. It is a pagan festival revisited. The first mention of the celebration of the Lord’s nativity in a liturgical calendar appears in the fourth century. This was the baptism of the pagan festival of the invincible sun (“sol invictus”), an observance introduced in 274 by the Emperor Aurelius (270-275), and celebrated in Rome on Dec. 25, the winter solstice. The “Sun of Justice” (Malachi 3:20) came as “the light of the world” brother john (John 8:12) to vanquish m. samaha, sm darkness and to triumph over sin and death.

As the Christianization of the winter solstice, observed in Egypt and in Arabia on Jan. 6, developed into the feast of the Epiphany, it became a major feast of the East.

To counteract certain pagan myths, Epiphany, which means “showing forth” or “manifestation,” placed emphasis on the baptism of Jesus and his mission, and on the revelation of his glory at Cana. Gradually the feast of Epiphany spread to the entire West in the fourth century, and the East adopted the feast of Christmas about the same time.

In the fourth century at Rome the celebration of Christmas was a rather ordinary Mass celebrated by the pope. The Mass was similar to our present Mass at Dawn, and proclaimed the prologue of John’s Gospel. To refute and oppose the Arian heresy rampant at that time, the Mass affirmed and celebrated the word made flesh.

This Christmas Mass was clearly Christ-centered and dogmatic in character, and in 360 mentioned the adoration of the Magi and the massacre of the innocent children of Bethlehem.

At Bethlehem a night Mass was celebrated for Epiphany in the grotto of the Lord’s birth.

Beginning in the fifth century a night Mass was celebrated in Rome also, but it was the Mass of

Christmas and not that of Epiphany. The pope celebrated the night Mass at the Church of St. Mary Major, built after the Council of Ephesus.

Wood from a crèche was displayed in one of the basilica’s chapels, and the Mass celebrated there became known as the Mass near the crèche. Since the account of Jesus’ birth at Bethlehem was read from the Gospel of Luke, the theme of this celebration was historical.

The Greek (Byzantine) colony in Rome celebrated Dec. 25 too. They assembled at the Church of St. Anastasia (Holy Resurrection). To respect the Byzantines the pope celebrated Mass with them in the morning before going to St. Peter’s Basilica. In that Mass the Gospel reading was the announcement of the good news to the shepherds found in Luke’s Gospel.

This is how the three Masses of Christmas originated. The pope and the faithful celebrated Mass at night at St. Mary Major, at dawn at St. Anastasia, and during the day at St. Peter.

Marianist Brother Samaha lives in Cupertino.

Sex and our culture

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o generation in history has ever experienced as much change as we have experienced in the past 60 years especially in the area of our social infrastructure, our communal ethos.

Nowhere is this change more radical than in the area of how we understand sex. In the past 70 years we have witnessed three major, tectonic shifts in how we understand the place of sex in our lives.

First, we moved away from the concept that sex is morally connected to procreation. With few excepFATHER ron tions, prior to 1950, at least rolheiser in terms of our moral and religious notions around sex, sex was understood as constitutively connected to procreation. That connection, while still upheld in some of our churches, effectively broke down in our culture about 60 years ago.

The second severing was more radical. Up to the 1960s, our culture tied sex to marriage. This wasn’t always respected and there was plenty of sex taking place outside of marriage. But it wasn’t morally or religiously accepted or blessed. The sexual revolution of the 1960s effectively severed that link.

Sex, in our cultural understanding, has become an extension of dating and one of the fruits of that is that more and more people now live together outside of marriage and before marriage, without any sense of moral implication. More and more young people today will not even have a moral discussion on this with either their parents or their churches.

Their glib answer: “We don’t think like you!”

But the shift in our sexual ethos didn’t stop there. Today more and more we are witnessing the phenomenon of “hook-up” sex, where sex is deliberately and consciously cut off from love, emotion, and commitment. Sex is now cut off from love. More and more young people are making a conscious decision to delay looking for a marriage partner while they prepare for a career or launch that career and, while in that hiatus, which might last anywhere from 10 to 20 years, they plan to be sexually active, but with that sexual activity consciously cut off from love, emotion, and commitment. The idea is to eventually tie sex to love and commitment, but first to split it off for some years. Of course, again, as with the other shifts in our understanding of sex, this too has always been around, to which the phenomenon of prostitution and singles’ bars attest. But, until now, no one has claimed that this is healthy.

What’s particularly disturbing is not that there is sex taking place outside of its prescribed Christian ground, marriage. Human beings have struggled

with sex since the beginning of time. What’s more worrisome is that more and more this is not only being held up as the norm, it is also, among many of our own children, being understood and hailed as moral progress.

This may not make me popular among many of my contemporaries, but I want to state here unequivocally that our culture’s severing of the nonnegotiable tie between sex and marriage is just plain wrong. It’s also naive.

I once attended a conference on sexuality where the keynote speaker suggested churches have always been far too uptight about sex. She’s right.

However she went on to ask: “Why all this anxiety about sex? Who’s ever been hurt by it anyway?”

A more sober insight might suggest: “Who hasn’t been hurt by it?” History is strewn with broken hearts, broken families, broken lives, terminal bitterness, murders, and suicides within which sex is the canker.

Our churches have, admittedly, never produced a fully healthy, robust theology and spirituality of sex. However, what it has produced, its traditional morality and ethos, does give a fair and important warning to our culture: Don’t be naive about sexual energy. It isn’t always as friendly and inconsequential as you think!

the later stages of such a warming cycle.Ice from the most recent ice age is still retreating.A third, even more detailed observation, the present cycle is warming more rapidly than any that came before.

Independent experimentation supports the theory that carbon dioxide produces a hothouse effect.

We need not try to prove that humans contributed to global warming, although observations support that notion.What we must do as guardians of God’s Earth is decide to reduce our future contribution to accelerated warming. Pope Francis has every right to support the scientific consensus and to put his support into a moral context.

Alex M. Saunders San Carlos

was placed upon the seat of a brand new threespeed bicycle. I did not realize that the bicycle was my Christmas gift until I was halfway up the stairs.

I turned and shouted “A new bicycle!” To this day, almost 60 years later, I remember the smile on my father’s face as his son was so filled with joy.

I found out from my mother that dad had worked overtime for a week to purchase that bicycle.

For years afterward, I wondered what gift I could give my father to repay him. I wanted more than anything else to see that Christmas smile again and again. Now, dad is in God’s care. The Christmas gift which dad got was the most satisfying of all, the gift of giving. Now I understand. Thanks, dad. In my heart, I can still see your smile.

Mike McAdoo San Francisco

Oblate Father Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas.

Letters Unfamiliar with scientific method

In his critique of Pope Francis comments on climate change Ed Binetti (Dec. 3)) seems unfamiliar with scientific method. The method sequence is observation, making a hypothesis or theory, followed by experiments to test theory, leading to a conclusion based on result. The conclusion either supports or does not support the theory. (A conclusion may be a new observation). Only careless scientists insist their conclusion is proof of the theory or establishes fact. However, if many scientists, with careful experiments all reach the same conclusion, then it is correct to speak of consensus.

In daily conversation all of us frequently speak as if an observation were a fact.Then we put many such “facts” together and proudly come to a “proof.” This is how Ed Binetti asks us to fit God into the scheme of things. Such process is neither theology nor science, because neither of these endeavors uses careless daily conversation as starting point of investigation.

In contrast, here are some observations. First, long before humans invented fire, the Earth has experienced temperature cycles. Ice ages follow warm trends in approximately 23,000-year cycles.

A more detailed observation; we are presently in

The gift of giving

As an aging man, in the autumn of his years, I return to Christmases past. I remember the joy as a child of opening presents from those who loved me.

One Christmas stands out. I remember when my father got me a new bicycle. On Christmas morning, he and my mother told me to go to the garage and there was a wrapped present for me. They followed me through the garage door as I went down the stairs and picked up a wrapped package which

Contesting letters appreciated

I really enjoyed the honesty of both letters by Ed Binetti and Richard Morasci (Dec. 3). And I agree fully with them. But I will also give credit to the paper for printing those letters which disagree with some of your liberal writers. Merry Christmas.

Joe Delorio Lincoln, California

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Sunday readings

Fourth Sunday of Advent Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, ‘Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. ‘ LUKE 1:39-45 MICAH 5:1-4A Thus says the Lord: You, Bethlehem-Ephrathah too small to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel; whose origin is from of old, from ancient times. Therefore the Lord will give them up, until the time when she who is to give birth has borne, and the rest of his kindred shall return to the children of Israel. He shall stand firm and shepherd his flock by the strength of the Lord, in the majestic name of the Lord, his God; and they shall remain, for now his greatness shall reach to the ends of the earth; he shall be peace.

Once again, O Lord of hosts, look down from heaven, and see; take care of this vine, and protect what your right hand has planted the son of man whom you yourself made strong.

Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.

May your help be with the man of your right hand, with the son of man whom you yourself made strong. Then we will no more withdraw from you; give us new life, and we will call upon your name.

Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.

PSALM 80:2-3, 15-16, 18-19 Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.

O shepherd of Israel, hearken, from your throne upon the cherubim, shine forth. Rouse your power, and come to save us.

Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.

HEBREWS 10:5-10 Brothers and sisters: When Christ came into the world, he said: “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me; in holocausts and sin offerings you took no delight. Then I said, ‘As is written of me in the scroll, behold, I come to do your will, O God.’” First he says, “Sacrifices and offerings, holocausts and sin offerings,

you neither desired nor delighted in.” These are offered according to the law. Then he says, “Behold, I come to do your will.” He takes away the first to establish the second. By this “will,” we have been consecrated through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

LUKE 1:39-45 Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth.

When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And how does this happen to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy. Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled.”

Setting us free from our knots

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tell anyone who asks that the most enjoyable part of my life is the time I get to spend with the elementary school kids at St. Peter and St. Anthony-Immaculate Conception in the Mission District. They’re ceaselessly delightful and full of life.

The little guys have me doing all sorts of things with and for them: playing duckduck-goose; kickball; hula hoop; reading story books (most recently “Mr. Dandelion”); and… tying shoes.

I untie bad knots and tie new, good ones on a regular basis. The little kindergarteners, first, and second graders are always running up and exclaiming: “Father!

Fix my shoes!”

All of which has got me Father Mark thinking a fair bit these Doherty days about one of our Holy Father’s favorite titles for our Blessed Mother: Undoer of Knots. I had never heard of this Marian title before Jorge Bergoglio was elected to the chair

scripture reflection

of Peter and started propagating this devotion, apparently one of his favorites. At first, the title struck me as a bit silly, and dare I say… kitschy (and maybe it is a bit!), but upon reflection the title conveys an absolutely central and profound aspect of the Gospel, namely the good news that through Mary’s fiat God can untie any and all bad knots to lead us through to a broader, fulfilling horizon.

We all end up in knots of one sort or another.

Some are of our own making; others befall us.

Either way, we can find ourselves shouting to the heavens: “Father! Fix this knot!” Sometimes the knots are so… knotty, that we’re tempted to despair. That’s always the end-game strategy of the evil one. He wants to convince us that not even God can bring something good out of our troubles.

Elizabeth and Zechariah were tied up in a seemingly unresolvable knot. The faithful couple had been unable to conceive, and so experience the joy and privilege of shepherding a new life into the world. Rather than try to cut corners and take matters into their own hands as we are so wont to do in our age, they entrusted themselves to divine providence. And lo! They received marvelous news that the Lord had not abandoned them but would deliver them from their knot. The visita-

tion of Mary to Elizabeth is one of the most joyful episodes in the whole Gospel, as both women share with each other the bounty of the Lord’s providence.

But the Lord does not always untie the knots of our lives in the way we would like or foresee.

More often than not he has something else in store, something which – in the long run – is even better for us, but which in the present is obscured. And so Christmas is a feast of both joy and faith: joy because the Lord comes to our aid, manifesting that his love for us is without bounds; and faith because in the moment of receiving the gift – which is often not as we expect it to be – not all questions are answered, nor are all anxieties laid to rest.

So we must pray and be watchful, so that when the Lord comes to answer our pleas, to set us free from our knots, we may recognize him (who would’ve ever thought the Almighty would come among us as a helpless babe), and, having recognized him, trust that the way in which he wishes to untie our knots is indeed the best way.

Father Doherty is parochial vicar at St. Peter Parish, San Francisco, and chaplain for Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory.

Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, December 21: Monday of the Fourth Week of Advent. Optional Memorial of St. Peter Canisius, priest and doctor. Sg 2:8-14 or Zep 3:1418a. PS 33:2-3, 11-12, 20-21. Lk 1:39-45.

Tuesday, December 22: Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Advent. 1 Sm 1:24-28. 1 Samuel 2:1, 4-5, 6-7, 8abcd. Lk 1:46-56.

Wednesday, December 23: Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Advent. Optional Memorial of St. John of Kanty, priest. Mal 3:1-4, 23-24. PS 25:4-5ab, 8-9, 10 and 14. Lk 1:57-66.

Thursday, December 24: Thursday of the Fourth Week of Advent. Christmas Eve. 2 Sm 7:15, 8b-12, 14a, 16. PS 89:2-3, 4-5, 27 and 29. Lk 1:67-79.

Friday, December 25: The Nativity of the Lord (Christmas) – Mass During the Day. Solemnity of

Christmas. Is 52:7-10. Ps 98:1, 2-3, 3-4, 5-6. Heb 1:1-6. Jn 1:1-18 or Jn 1:1-5, 9-14.

Saturday, December 26: Feast of St. Stephen, first martyr. Acts 6:8-10; 7:54-59. PS 31:3cd-4, 6 and 8ab, 16bc and 17. Ps 118:26a, 27a. Mt 10:17-22.

Sunday, December 27: The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Sir 3:2-6, 12-14 or 1 Sm 1:20-22, 24-28. Ps 128:1-2, 3, 4-5 or Ps 84:2-3, 5-6, 9-10.

Col 3:12-21 or Col 3:12-17 or 1 Jn 3:1-2, 21-24 or cf. Acts 16:14b. Lk 2:41-52.

Monday, December 28: Feast of the Holy Innocents, martyrs. 1 Jn 1:5—2:2. PS 124:2-3, 4-5, 7cd-8. Mt 2:13-18.

Tuesday, December 29: The Fifth Day in the Octave of Christmas. Optional Memorial of St. Thomas Becket, bishop and martyr. 1 Jn 2:3-11. PS 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 5b-6. Lk 2:32. Lk 2:22-35.

Wednesday, December 30: The Sixth Day in the Octave of Christmas. 1 Jn 2:12-17. PS 96:7-8a, 8b-9, 10. Lk 2:36-40.

Thursday, December 31: The Seventh Day in the Octave of Christmas. Optional Memorial of St. Sylvester I, pope. 1 Jn 2:18-21. PS 96:1-2, 11-12, 13.

Jn 1:14a, 12a. Jn 1:1-18.

Friday, January 1: The Octave Day of Christmas.

Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. Nm 6:22-27. Ps 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8. Gal 4:4-7. Heb 1:1-2. Lk 2:16-21.

Saturday, January 2: Memorials of St. Basil the Great and St. Gregory Nazianzen, bishops and doctors. 1 Jn 2:22-28. Ps 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4. Heb 1:1-2.

Jn 1:19-28.

Sunday, January : Epiphany of the Lord. Is 60:16. Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-11, 12-13. Eph 3:2-3a, 5-6. Mt 2:2. Mt 2:1-12.

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New children’s books on saints, traditions make great Christmas gifts Regina Lordan Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON – The following books are suitable for Christmas giving: “Drop by Drop” by U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, illustrated by Carrie Gowran. Loyola Press (Chicago, 2015). 39 pp., $4.95 Sylvie is a girl from Burkina Faso who is eager to go to school but cannot because she is tasked with the daily chore of fetching water for her family. It takes all day to carry the water from the river three miles away, leaving her no time for learning in a classroom. But with the help of aid workers from Catholic Relief Services, a well is drilled in her community, dramatically changing her life. American children might have a hard time relating to and understanding how CRS’ development and aid projects around the world help answer Jesus’ call to solidarity with the poor, but “Drop by Drop” will help children see how the church works to make lives better. Younger readers will enjoy “Green Street Park,” a book also by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, about a group of young students inspired by St. Francis to clean up their neighborhood park. Ages 6-10.

“A Missal for Little Ones” translated

by Janet Chevrier, illustrated by Joelle d’Abbadie. Magnificat (New York, 2015). 64 pp., $12.99 This beautifully illustrated missal invites young children to become active participants in the Mass with its simple description of the parts of the Mass.

The missal does not seek to explain the mysteries, liturgies or the consecration, it only takes the child step-by-step through the parts of the Mass. The book also offers a few prayers for children. Adults can read the book to young ones before attending church, helping the children to recognize what is going on around them, and older children can take the book with them to Mass to help them understand what they are observing. Ages 3-7.

“Just for Today” by St. John XXIII, illustrated by Bimba Landmann. Eerdmans Books for Young Readers (Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2015). 34 pp., $16.00 Bimba Landmann brings to life with colorful and intriguing illustrations St. John XXIII’s decalogue

of how to live each day humbly, politely and lovingly toward God and others. Affectionately known as “the good pope,” St. John wrote guidelines that are obtainable, direct, sweet and simple enough for children to follow. The hardcover book is a keepsake that will open the discussion about this pope who courageously had saved the lives of Jews during the Holocaust and was canonized by Pope Francis in 2014. Ages 4 and up.

“Catholic Saints for Children” by AnneSophie du Bouetiez, illustrated by Benedicte Lefebvre. Magnificat (New York, 2015). 94 pp., $16.99 Saint books for children might seem like a dime a dozen, but a few stick out. This one certainly will with its bright watercolor illustrations and inclusion of lesser-known female saints, such as St. Genevieve and St. Hildegard. Each passage includes a description of the saint, illustration, reflection and prayer. Children will also get the opportunity to read about soon-to-be saints, such as Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. Ages 3 and up.

“Let’s Pray the Rosary” by Mauricette Vial-Andre, illustrated by Emmanuel Beaudesson. Magnificat (New York, 2015). 33 pp., $14.99 This illustrated hardcover book will give children an introduction to and reaffirmation of the significance of Mary in Catholicism and praying the rosary to ask for her intercession. The passages include stories about how the rosary came to be, the many ways to pray the rosary and stories about the saints and the rosary. Ages 6 and up.

“Brother Giovanni’s Little Reward: How the Pretzel Was Born” by Anna Egan Smucker, illustrated by Amanda Hall.

Eerdmans Books for Young Readers (Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2015). 32 pp., $17.

Brother Giovanni was a happy monk who loved to bake. He enjoyed his simple role as baker at the monastery until he was tasked to teach a group of unruly students their prayers before an important visit from the local bishop. But the joyful monk was unsuccessful at being stern and could not control the rowdy bunch. One night it dawned on him to bake his way to success, and Brother Giovanni made little rewards out of salt and dough called “pretiolas” to entice the children to learn their prayers. Alas, the boys and girls couldn’t resist the “pretiolas,” that we now

know as “pretzels,” and they learned their prayers just in time. All readers will enjoy this fun story and beautifully illustrated hardcover book. Ages 4-8.

“Kristoph and the First Christmas Tree”

by Claudia Cangilla McAdam, illustrated by Dave Hill. Paraclete Press (Brewster, Massachusetts, 2015). 32 pp., $16.99 A young boy, a priest and one powerful blow to an oak tree begin this legendary story of how the first Christmas tree came to be. Children will enjoy the detailed illustrations and exciting story about how a group of pagans were shown the power of God by the strength of St. Boniface. The story explains why the evergreen tree is a part (CNS) of the Christmas tradition and includes a prayer based on the words of St. Boniface. Ages 4-6.

“Junipero Serra: Founder of the California Missions” by Linda Gondosch, illustrated by Emmanuel Beaudesson.

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Lordan, a mother of three, has master’s degrees in education and political science and is a former assistant international editor of Catholic News Service.

Author has tips for parents to encourage children to come back to church Veronica Ambuul Catholic News Service

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado – It’s a scenario that will probably play out in thousands of homes across the country this Christmas: A young adult goes home for the holidays and announces that he or she no longer attends Mass.

How parents should respond is the subject of a new book and video series by Brandon Vogt, content director for Word on Fire Catholic Ministries and author of the best-selling book, “The Catholic Church and New Media.”

He recently was a guest on the radio show “The Joy of the Gospel,” hosted by Bishop Michael J. Sheridan of Colorado Springs.

Vogt said the inspiration for his new book, “Return” – available at www.returngameplan.com – grew out of his experiences.

“Over the last several years, I’ve been speaking around the country at Catholic conferences and events, at parishes and in small groups, and I noticed that the most pressing and pervasive problem among many of the people I encountered was that so many were distraught over sons and daughters who have left the church,” Vogt told The Colorado Catholic Herald, the newspaper of the Diocese of Colorado Springs.

“Almost every place I went, I heard some version of, ‘My son, my daughter, they went off to college, they came home and they don’t go to Mass or believe in God. I’m devastated. What should I do?’”

Recent surveys of religious practice among socalled “millennials” confirmed the need for such a book, said Vogt (pronounced “Vott”).

“The second thing which reinforced this anecdotal evidence was the release of the Pew Religious Landscape Survey,” he said. “One of the numbers that popped out: 50 percent of young Americans who were raised Catholic no longer call themselves Catholic today. They also found that 79 percent of people who drifted away from Catholicism did so before age 23. So these are predominantly young people who are leaving the Church in massive numbers, and I felt like I needed to do something about it.”

Although each person’s story is unique, fallenaway Catholics typically fall in one of six categories, he said: – Cultural Catholics: People who still identify as Catholic, but they don’t really have a sacramental life. Many researchers have noted that this describes the largest percentage of adult Catholics who don’t practice their faith,” Vogt said. “The cultural Catholics are vast, and they’re the ones sitting on the bench between being in the church and wholly drifting away.”

– Shruggers: “A lot of people tell me that the problem with their children is not that they disagree with one of the church’s teachings or have issue with the church’s liturgy; they just don’t care,” Vogt said.

– Spiritual but not religious: Described by many researchers as “unaffiliated” or “nones.” “The interesting thing about these people is that not all of them disbelieve in God,” Vogt said. “In fact, the majority of

them still claim to believe in a higher power, to pray and to be interested in spiritual things. They’re just leery of the institution of the church.”

– Moral movers: People who leave the Catholic Church because they disagree with one of the church’s moral teachings, such as contraception, abortion, homosexuality, or divorce and remarriage.

– Religious switchers: About a quarter of former Catholics who switch from one church to another, usually from the Catholic Church to either an evangelical or nondenominational Protestant tradition.

– Skeptics: Includes atheists, agnostics and anyone skeptical of God and religion. “They make up a relatively small proportion of the population right now; about 3 percent of Americans are atheist and 4 percent identify as agnostic. But those numbers have risen four- to fivefold over the last decade” Vogt said.

While it’s important for parents to remain calm and keep the lines of communication open with children who have stopped practicing the faith, they can’t be complacent, Vogt said. One of the common myths about fallen-away Catholics is that, once they get married and have children, they will return to church.

“Statistically, there seems to be little or no evidence that this is actually true,” Vogt said. “Here’s why: In 1960, the average age for getting married was 23 for men and 20 for women. Today it’s 29 for men and 27 for women. So young people are waiting longer than ever to get married. That extra time away from church makes it less likely they’ll return.

And when they do get married, they’re not getting married in the church.”

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Archbishop Cordileone at 7th Street San Francisco County Jail.

Restorative Justice team and Jail staff inside a 7 th Street County Jail.

AMONG THE SEVEN CORPORAL WORKS OF MERCY, ONE IS TO VISIT THE IMPRISONED

Pope Francis has asked us to rediscover the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy. Throughout the Gospels, Jesus admonishes us to follow his example, an example that sets down tangible ways we might better serve our brothers and sisters in need. As its name implies, the Corporal Works of Mercy are directed toward serving the body. In anticipation of this Jubilee, on November 25th Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone and the Restorative Justice Ministry staff Julio Escobar, Carolina Parrales and Jose Betancourt prepared a Catholic Prayer Service and Thanksgiving Lunch for the men at the 7th Street Jail in San Francisco. The Archbishop read the Gospel of Luke 17:11;19. In this reading of the gospel Jesus comes to rescue ten men with leprosy. Jesus Christ does not only come to help the ten men but also heals them from their wounds. In a similar way our incarcerated brothers and sisters deserve that spiritual cleansing experience that the Gospel talks about. The Spiritual Healing reminds us of the penitence and struggles that inmates have to endure while in prison.

SF 3rd Annual Memorial Service for 2015 Homicide Victims

The annual event is an outgrowth of the homicide prayer services The Restorative Justice Ministry helps organize each time a person is killed. The Restorative Justice Ministry visits sites where a person is killed to pray and remember the victim. The prayer services culminate each year with an interfaith memorial service, now in its third year.

Most Reverend Bishop William J. Justice will open the event with a reflection at St. Anthony Church in San Francisco. You are invited to pray for world peace, walk and help carry crosses for our brothers and sisters killed in 2015.

Saturday, January 16, 2016 Program Opening Prayer Prayer Walk begins 1st Stop (approx.)

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Darren Bucko, Riordan. On the phone taking pledges at the time the picture was taken was Mika Montero, SHC.

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Francis in the Schools: On Dec. 3, the organization Francis in the Schools hosted 1,500 Catholic elementary school children at St. Mary’s Cathedral for a day of activities that began with a musical play, shown, called “Following Francis to the New World: St. Junipero Serra and The California Missions.”

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St. Brigid School, San Francisco: Seventh graders visited the Veterans Administration hospital at Fort Miley, with gifts of books and poinsettias. In a book drive spearheaded by seventh grader Dominic Bazinet, the school was able to more than double the number of books in the hospital lending library.

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Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish, Belmont: Hitting the heart of the season, confirmation candidates adopted a family from Modesto whose 3-year-old son is being treated at Stanford Hospital providing gifts and cards of encouragement. IHM religious education students donated gifts and toys to St. Francis Center in Redwood City.

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FRIDAY, DEC. 18 TAIZE: St. Gregory Parish, 2715 Hacienda St. at 28th Avenue, San Mateo, 7 p.m., (650) 345-8506.

SATURDAY, DEC. 19 HANDICAPABLES MASS: Mass at noon then lunch in lower halls, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough Street entrance. All disabled people, caregivers invited. Volunteers welcome, Joanne Borodin, (415) 2394865; www.Handicapables.com.

PORZIUNCOLA ROSARY: Knights of St. Francis Holy Rosary Sodality, Saturdays, 2:30 p.m., Porziuncola Nuova, Vallejo Street at Columbus Avenue, San Francisco. Chaplet of Divine Mercy, 3 p.m. All welcome; www. knightsofsaintfrancis.com.

TURKEY DRIVE: St. Emydius Church, DeMontfort and Jules avenues, San Francisco, 9 a.m.-noon, bring a turkey to benefit the St. Anthony Dining Room; SFPierre@aol.com.

CHURCH TOUR: Free tour of St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, San Francisco, 10 a.m., with senior docent Joseph DiNallo, docents@ stdominics.org.

SUNDAY, DEC. 20 CONCERT: Our Lady of Loretto Church, 1806 Novato Blvd., Novato, Christmas concerts at 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., featuring the parish adult and children’s choirs, followed by reception, free admission.

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PRO-LIFE: San Mateo Pro Life meets second Thursday of the month except in December; 7:30 p.m.; St. Gregory’s Worner Center, 28th Ave. at Hacienda, San Mateo, new members welcome; Jessica, (650) 572-1468; themunns@ yahoo.com.

CATHEDRAL CHRISTMAS: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant and homilist at midnight and 9 a.m. Christmas Day Mass, St. Mary’s CatheArchbishop dral, Gough Cordileone Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco; www.stmarycathedralsf.org.

SATURDAY, JAN. 16 DISCERNMENT DAY: Are you drawn to a life of prayer? The Dominican Nuns of Corpus Christi Monastery, 215 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park, single Catholic women ages 18-40; RSVP by January 11, Dominican Sister Joseph Marie, vocations@nunsmenlo.org, visit http://nunsmenlo.org/discernmentdays/; day begins with Mass at 8 a.m. followed by Divine Office, adoration, rosary, conferences, vocation stories

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Catholic san francisco | December 17, 2015

In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of November HOLY CROSS, COLMA Carmen Andreatta Alonzo Maria Teresa Alvarez Joan Rose Antonoff Rolando A. Arnaldo Marie Y. Assily Trinidad S. Ayalde Feliciana R. Bacani Catherine S. Baldacchino-Knight Arthur Natividad Batinga Mary A. Battaini Jose S. Bengco Herbert Benitez Jorja Colleen Benson Jose G. Bernabe Teresa A. Berrios Juliet M. Bressler Lucia C. Caldito Carlo Carino Generosa Carzon Susanty Chandra Patricia C. Coleman Andrew Joseph Conway Charles E. Cooper Brendan Marc Ducousso Nieves Estacio Samuel F. Ewing Clifton Fogarty John Michael Foley Mary Foudy Virginia H. Francisco Margaret Franklin Javier Ivan Lopez Garcia Blanche Gemignani Robert J. Germenis Daniel Matias Gomez Barbara Joanne Greenalch Albert Gutierrez Joyce R. Harnett Rafael V. Herrera Bernice O’Rourke Hiller Misi Hunkin

Maria E. Jimenez Dinora Uribe Nancy Kansora Florence Use C. Jean Kelly Daniel John Usher Malietau Maletino Langi Louis J. Vasco Thomas Lennon Ligia Pastora Villavicencio Luisa Li Phyllis J. Woodall Catherine Lucio Diego Alexander Zarco Victoria Luna Anita Marcenaro Lucy Florence Mc Inerney Frank J. Mc Intosh SR. Helene Frances McBride, PBVM Johanna McGinty Celia Pivato Capovilla Patricia Ann McGrorey John H. Courter Denis F. McLaughlin, Jr. Vincent M. Gould Emma E. Meagher Roberto Barahona Molina Elaine Bernice Miner Darlene A. Noel John “Jack” Minkel Mary L. (Ramacciotti) Regalia Maria B. Mobo Rita M. Smith Theresa Mary Modesti Stephen A. Smith Eduardo S. Molinas Kathryn Bates Turner Joan Marie Monroe Belen M. Moreno Pasquina Morotti Helen M. Naish Andrew Nieto-Gall Margaret M. O’Sullivan Joshua Ethan Orillaneda Tonina Catalano Carter Baily Pagan Jose N. Diaz Eduarda Z. Pasalo Thomas W. Galvin Oscar L. Pasamonte Guadalupe Gil Relizabeth R. Paulino Anna M. Gubatayao Randy Perez Tevita Lonitenisi Arthur J. Ransburg, Jr. Vaisasini Pamaka Jane B. Reilly Maria Ines Hondagneu Sotelo Angela E. Reyes Kevin Richardson Douglas W. Ridgway Grace M. Sabagquit Lois L. Sala Robert L. Satterfield Eddy Bettencourt Augustine Joseph Tarango Carlos A. Pantoja Sami Tawasha Lorraine Piegaia Tuan Van Tran George Piegaia Pablo A. Tumbaga

Mt. olivet, san rafael

HOLY CROSS, menlo Park

Our lady of the pillar

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma FIRST SATURDAY MASS – SATURDAY, January 2, 2016 ALL SAINTS MAUSOLEUM CHAPEL – 11:00 AM Rev. Tony La Torre, Celebrant, St. Philip’s Parish

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Santa Cruz Ave. @Avy Ave., Menlo Park, CA 650-323-6375

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA 650-756-2060

Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA 415-479-9020

Tomales Catholic Cemetery 1400 Dillon Beach Road, Tomales, CA 415-479-9021

St. Anthony Cemetery Stage Road, Pescadero, CA 650-712-1675

Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay, CA 650-712-1679

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.