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Weekly
Schedule
Monday,
August 18th
- Esquipulas
7-9 pm Main Hall (Upper
Room)
- Confirmation
Study 6:30-8:30pm Main Hall (Upper
Room)
- Spanish Bible
Class 7-9:00 pm St. Michael’s
Hall
Tuesday,
August 19th
- Legion de
Maria 7-8:30 pm
Pilgrimage
- 12 Step Group
7-9 pm St. Gabriel’s
Hall
- Tongan Choir
Practice 8-9:30 pm Main
Hall
- Y.L.I. 12-3
pm Main Hall - 2nd Tuesday of the
month
Wednesday,
August 20th
- Our
Lady’s Prayer Group 6-10 pm
Church
- Holy Spirit
Choir Practice 8:00 pm Main
Hall
- Gift Shop
Opens 5:00-9:00 pm
- Women’s
Guild 11:30-1 pm Main Hall - 1st
Wednesday of the month
Thursday,
August 21st
- OE Group 5-6
pm St. Gabriel’s
Hall
- RCIA 7:00 PM
Upper Room
- Legión
de María 7-8:30 pm St.
Gabriel’s Hall
- Tongan Choir
Practice 8-9:30 pm Main
Hall
Friday,
August 22nd
- La Purisima
6:30-8:30 pm St.
Michael’s
- Grupo de
Jóvenes 7:30-9:30 pm Upper
Room
- St.
Bruno’s Youth Group 7:30-9:30 pm
Upper Room
- Holy Spirit
Choir 9-11 pm Church
Saturday,
August 23rd
- CCD 9-11 am
All Rooms
- Gift Shop
Opens 7:00-9:00 pm
Sunday,
August 24th
- Gift Shop
Opens 11:30 am
- Tongan Choir
Practice 2-4 pm St.
Michael’s
- Gift Shop
Opens 6:00-8:30 pm
Readings
for the week of August 18, 2008
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Monday:
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Ezekiel
24:15-23; Matthew
19:16-22
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Tuesday:
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Ezekiel
28:1-10; Matthew
19:23-30
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Wednesday:
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Ezekiel
34:1-11; Matthew
20:1-16
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Thursday:
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Ezekiel
36:23-28; Matthew
22:1-14
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Friday:
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Ezekiel
37:1-14 Matthew
22:34-40
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Saturday:
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Ezekiel
43:1-7ab; Matthew
23:1-12
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Sunday:
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Isaiah
22:19-23; Matthew
16:13-20
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Your
Contribution / Su
Contribución
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We are
grateful for your consistent
financial support each week.
Please remember us in prayer and
offering even when you are not
able to be
present.
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First
Collection $ 3,419.33
Second Collection $
906.21
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Estamos muy
agradecidos por su constante
ayuda financiera. Por favor
recuérdenos en sus
oraciones y ofrendas aún
cuando no pueda estar
presente.
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MASS INTENTIONS
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Saturday,
August
16th
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4:30
PM
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Rog &
Dee Villaflor
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7:00
PM
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+Clara
Mendoza
(Fallecida)
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Sunday,
August
17th
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8:00
AM
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+Censa
Pisani (Deceased)
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10:00
AM
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+Amalia
Palafox
(Fallecido)
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Noon
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+Consiglia
Ellul (Deceased)
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6:00
PM
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+Inocencio
Cuenco (Deceased)
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Monday,
August
18th
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8:00
AM
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+Inez
Howard (2nd yr. Death
Anniv.)
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6:00
PM
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+Antonio
Araujo (Deceased)
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Tuesday,
August
19th
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8:00
AM
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+Efrosina
Carranza
(Deceased)
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6:00
PM
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+Rosalia
Cortez (Deceased)
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Wednesday,
August
20th
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8:00
AM
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+Iluminada
Del Val
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Thursday,
August
21st
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8:00
AM
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Leticia
Dayrit
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6:00
PM
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Louie
Fernandez
(Thanksgiving)
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Friday,
August
22nd
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8:00
AM
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Joe Watkins
(Thanksgiving)
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6:00
PM
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+Salvu
Zammitt (Deceased)
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Saturday,
August
23rd
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8:00
AM
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Myra
Yeo
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A
reflection on
the Gospel for
The Twentieth
Sunday in
Ordinary
Time
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It may be
a human
condition, but
there are
people who
judge others as
inferior or
unworthy of
their
attention. They
may be people
from other
countries or
cultures,
poorer, less
educated or
from a
different
social class.
Sometimes
Hispanics are
judged by those
who have been
here for some
time treat
those who
arrive after
them in the
same manner. A
group of Cubans
could reject
Mexicans, and
the Mexicans
the
Guatemalans,
the Guatemalans
the
Salvadorans,
etc. This also
occurred during
the times of
Jesus. As if
this were
significant,
even being a
woman was not
valued in those
times (already
considered to
be in the
lowest echelon
of society).
But many times
these people
can surprise
us, not by the
amazing things
they can do,
but by their
sense of
normality. We
probably expect
a strange
person with
incomprehensible
feelings and
are surprised
when we find a
human being
with normal
feelings. This
is what must
have happened
to Jesus when
he encountered
the Cananite
woman. First of
all he should
not have been
speaking to a
woman, much
less a
foreigner.
Second, it was
not expected
that this woman
would have such
a deep faith,
because she
continues to
insist, even
after being
rejected and
told there can
be no mercy for
her. She
persevered and
demonstrated
that faith has
no boundaries
of race or
class.
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Una
reflexión
sobre el
evangelio del
Vigesimo
Domingo del
Tiempo
Ordinario
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Puede ser
que sea la
condición
humana, pero a
menudo hay
personas que
juzgan a otras
inferiores e
indignas de
atención.
Puede ser que
sean personas
de otro
país o
de otra
cultura, o
gente
más
pobre, o de
menos
educación,
o de otra clase
social. A veces
a los hispanos
les hacen el
vacío
precisamente
personas que
fueron
inmigrantes
ellos mismos.
Pero lo curioso
es que a menudo
también
los que ya
llevan
aquí un
tiempo, hacen
lo mismo con
los siguientes.
Un grupo de
cubanos puede
despreciar a un
grupo de
dominicanos,
que a su vez no
soportan a los
haitianos, a
los mexicanos o
a los
guatemaltecos y
los
guatemaltecos a
los
salvadoreños...etc.
También
ocurría
en tiempos de
Jesús.
Por si fuera
poco hasta por
ser mujer (que
ya estaba
considerada
como en los
últimos
peldaños
de la
sociedad). Pero
a menudo
también
sorprenden esas
personas, no
tanto por lo
que hagan que
pueda ser
asombroso, sino
por su
normalidad. Nos
esperamos,
quizá,
una persona
extraña,
con sentimiento
incomprensibles.
Y al encontrar
a un ser
humano, con los
sentimientos
más
normales, nos
sorprendemos.
Algo así
le debió
pasar a
Jesús
con la mujer
cananea.
Primero, no
debería
hablar con
ella. Era mujer
y para colmo
extranjera. En
segundo lugar,
no se esperaba
que la mujer
tuviera una fe
tan profunda.
Porque ella
insiste,
incluso cuando
la rechazan y
dicen que para
ella no hay
gracia ni
misericordia.
Insiste y
demuestra que
la fe no tiene
frontera de
raza no
clase.
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 the
sick, Maria Olivas, Juan
& Marta Ortiz, Vince
Jimenez, Angela
Sierro-Brusseau, Athena
Olivas, Jesus Rodriguez,
Frank Miranda, Pablo
Ruiz, Jorge Chaux,
Cordelia Griffin, Armida
Muñoz, Shirley
Celestine, Travis Barb,
Ted Cuenco, Rena
Coturri
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Dear
Parishioners,
We are
in the process of organizing the parish
pastoral council. It will be a
consultative body that advises the pastor
in the administration of the parish. An
initial membership has been drawn up.
These are representatives of the three
ethnic communities (Spanish, Tongan &
Filipinos), committee chairs and deacons
who are ex officio members.
We have
had two meetings. The first meeting was an
orientation and informative session
regarding the nature, purpose and
composition of the council. In the second
meeting, we took a close look and study of
the draft of the constitution and by-laws.
At the next meeting on Thursday, August
21, we hope to finalize and approve said
constitution. Also, a list of candidates
will be drawn up.
What
for are the candidates? To gain a wider
representation in the council, it was
agreed to have four members who will be
chosen by the parishioners themselves. How
does this work? First, we will make up a
list of candidates. Any registered
parishioner who has reached eighteen years
of age can be a candidate. So if you know
someone who you think should be in the
council, we invite you to submit his/ her
name and a brief write up about the
person. Once the list is approved, they
will be elected during a regular Sunday
mass. The four who get the highest votes
will be admitted as council members and
that will complete the council membership.
On September, we will have the election of
officers: chair, vice chair and
secretary.
Thank
you.
Fr.
Michael Brillantes
Administrator
Estimados
Feligreses,
Estamos
en el proceso de organizer el consil
pastoral. Sera un grupo de personas que
daran consejo al pastor, en la
administracion de la parroquia. Tenemos un
grupo de miembros. Son representantes de
las comunidades ethnicas (Hispanos,
Tonganos y Filipinos), estos son miembros
originales.
Hemos
tenido dos juntas. La primera junta fue
una orientacion y informacion referiendo a
el proposito y composicion del consil. En
la segunda junta vimos y estudiamos la
constitucion y las leyes. En la proxima
junta el jueves 21 de agosto, esperamos
finalizar y aprovar dicha constitucion.
Tambien se hara una lista de
candidatos.
¿Para
que candidatos? Es para obtener mejor
representacion en el consil, se acordo que
habra cuatro miembros que seran escojidos
por los feligreses. ¿Como trabaja
esto? Primero haremos una lista de los
candidatos. Cualquier feligres que esta
registrado y que tiene mas de 18
años puede ser candidate. Asi que
si sabe de alguien quien usted piensa que
puede estar en el consil, los invitamos
que mande el nombre y escriba algo corto
sobre esta persona. Cuando la lista este
aprovada, seran elegidos durante la misa
regular del domingo. Los cuatro que tengan
los mas votos seran admitidos como
miembros del concil. En Septiembre
tendremos las elecciones para las
posiciones de los oficiales: como para
vice presidente,
secretaria.
Muchas
Gracias.
Padre
Michael Brillantes
Administrador
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