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St. Felicitas Catholic Church
1662 Manor Blvd. San Leandro
Email: [email protected]
Telephone Number (510) 351-5244 ● Fax (510) 351-5730
www.stfelicitassl.org
Parish Staff
Rev. Thomas Khue
Parochial Administrator
Ext. 286
Rev. Tran T. Dinh
Vietnamese Ministry
In residence
351-5221
Deacon Timothy Myers
[email protected]
Mercey Zamora Pastoral Assoc./Spanish Ministry
347-1293
Sr. Bernadette Hoàng Yến Vietnamese Community
Altar Servers
347-1283
Sr. Ancilla Marie Le
Mass Schedule
Sunday
7:30 am - 9:00 am - 10:30 am
12:15 pm (Spanish) 4:30 pm Vietnamese)
Saturday
8:15 am - 4:30 pm (Vigil)
Daily (Monday to Fr iday) 7:00 am - 8:15 am
Holy Days 7:00 am 8:15 am
7:00 pm
1st Friday Exposition — 12:30 to 4:45 pm
Sacraments
Reconciliation—Saturday, 3:15 p.m.- 4:00 p.m. or
by appointment.
Baptism—4th Sunday of every month at 2:00 p.m.
Contact Parish Office for information
Marriage—Arrangements to be made 6 months
prior to the wedding.
Sharon Clancey
9:00 am to 4:00 pm
9:00 am to 4:30 pm
9:00 am to 12:30 pm
EMERGENCY NUMBER (510) 309-8097
Office Secretary
351-5244
Judi Lema
Bulletin
347-1284
Convent
351-5577
St. Vincent de Paul
706-1972
Parish School
Meghan Jorgensen
1650 Manor Blvd.
Principal
357-2530
Fax: 357-5358
Religious Education Office
Sandi Walton
Parish Office Hours
Monday - Tuesday
Wednesday - Thursday
Friday
Pastoral Care
347-1287
Geri Lara
Director of Religious Education
347-1282
Fax: 510-351-5730
[email protected]
Youth Services
347-1285
[email protected]
Fifth Sunday of Easter
May 3, 2015
Let us love not in word or speech
but in deed and truth.
— 1 John 3:18
My Dear Parishioners,
“I am the Vine and you are the branches” – John 15:5
Today’s gospel reminds us why we are here right now. We are Catholic and we are united to Jesus
Christ. The branches are united with a vine. We need to be united to Jesus Christ, the vine, the source of life,
so his life can flow into us. We come to Mass, not only to encounter Jesus Christ but to be nourished by His
Life, His words, and the Eucharist.
“Remain in me and I will remain in you,” Jesus tells us. That is what we are challenged to do.
Jesus stressed how important it is that his followers, the disciples, stick with Him, remain with him,
holding on to his teaching. He uses the imagery of the vine and the branches to make this point.
We are the branches nourished by the vine. Whoever remains in Him bears fruit. Without Christ we
can do nothing. The branches cannot survive on their own.
“I am the vine and you are the branches” Jesus is the source of life and He urges His disciples and us to
remain with Him. Without Him one can do nothing. Together with Christ one bears fruit.
We need to ask ourselves some questions:
1. Am I connected with Christ? Am I bearing any fruit? If not, where do I need to be pruned to bear
more fruit?
2. What kind of nourishment do I need to remain with Christ daily? How do I abide in Christ and He
in me?
3. Where is the real bond between myself and other people in the church? Where is this bond missing?
How can I strengthen these bonds? As the branches of the vine we are not only connected to the
vine but to other branches as well.
As I reflected on the gospel of this week, the 5th Sunday of Easter, “I am the vine you are the
branches,” I came across the homily that Pope Benedict XVI delivered in Germany when he celebrated Mass
in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. The Holy Father using the same gospel stated, “…in the parable of the
Vine it doesn’t say; ‘You are the vine,’ but ‘I am the Vine, you are the branches,’ (John 15:5). In other words,
‘As the branches are joined to the vine, so you belong to me! But in as much as you belong to me, you also
belong to one another.’ This belonging to each other and to Him is not some ideal, imaginary, or symbolic
relationship, but – I would almost say – a biological, life transmitting state of belonging to Jesus Christ. Such
is the Church, this communion of life with Jesus Christ and with one another, a communion that is rooted in
baptism and is deepened and given more and more vitality in the Eucharist.
‘I am the true Vine’ actually means ‘I am you and you are I’ an unprecedented identification of the
Lord with us, with his Church.”
You know many of us are caught in “Jesus and Me” mentality which ignores the reality of the Church
as the universal sacrament of salvation (Second Vatican Council).
Remaining in Christ is remaining in the Church. To abide in Christ means to abide in the Church as
well. In Christ we belong to one another. The whole communion of the faithful has been incorporated into
Christ, the true vine. Christ supports us in this communion and, as members, we support one another. As
believers we are not alone. We don’t believe alone. We believe with the whole Church. Here on earth and in
heaven.
Father Tom
FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
May 3rd, 2015
Our Weekly Goal
Children’s Liturgy Today
Second Collection
This Sunday: Maintenance
TODAY
Tues
5/5
Wed
5/6
7 am to Noon—Gym
Tickets are $7.00
6:00 pm New Eucharistic Ministers Church
Training
6:45 pm Jr. High Faith Formation
School
3:30 pm CCD Parent Faith Share
SMC
3:45 pm Faith Formation Class
School
7:30 pm Spanish Meeting
Soc. Hall
6:30 pm Faith Formation class
School
6:00 pm Spanish First
Communion Practice
Church
7:00 pm Spanish Adult Choir
AE room
7:00 pm Adult Choir (10:30 Mass) SJ Chapel
7:30 pm Spanish Catechist Meeting Soc. Hall
Thurs
5/7
Fri
5/8
$ 11,700.00
Sunday Collection—April 26th
$ 9,862.00
Amount needed to reach goal
$ 1,838.00
Thank you for your continued generosity
Events for the Week of May 4th, 2015
Mon
5/4
FINANCIAL CORNER
7:00 pm Spanish Youth Group
Soc. Hall
6:00 pm Viet. CCD Activity
Church
7:00 pm Span. Children’s Choir
Soc. Hall
7:30 pm Vietnamese Adult Choir
AE Room
EUCHARISTIC MINISTRY
If anyone is interested in being a Eucharistic Minister we
are having a training on Monday evening 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
in the Church. Please call Judi Lema at 510-347-1284 or
510-427-7282 or email me at [email protected]
Please note Sandi Walton’s New Phone Number
510-347-1282 and Fax: 510-351-5730
Our Lady of Fatima Masses
All Masses at 6:30 P.M.
May 13—Wednesday
June 12—Friday
July 13—Monday
August 13—Thursday
September 14—Monday
October 13—Tuesday
Stewardship Report
Last Week’s Stewardship (4/26) of $493.10 went to St. Mary’s
Center—assists low income seniors, families and preschoolers
in downtown and West Oakland.
This Week’s Stewardship will go to a needy parishioner.
Next Week’s Stewardship (5/10) will go to our parish
St. Vincent de Paul.
CONGRATULATIONS TO
ALL OF OUR CHILDREN
WHO RECEIVED
FIRST HOLY COMMUNION
ON MAY 2nd
Daniel Aguiar
Joseline Aguirre
Nathalie Aguirre
Lymari Arroyo
Sebastian Asilo
Makayla Asoy
Sydney Bauer
Gabriella Berggren
Clarence Capunitan
Marcos Cazares-Ramos
Chisimdi Chukwu
Jillian Correa
Francisco Dalog
David DeAnda
Roland DeAnda
Natasha DeLa Vega Trinidad
Lucas-Gabriel Echalas
Madeline Feldman
Ariana Fragoso
Mariah Garcia
Darlene Geronimo
Daryl Geronimo
Hugo Gomez
Mariella Gondraneos
Julian Gonzalez
Olivia Gonzalez
Noel Gonzalez
Jasmine Kong
Kai Kong
Kaleb Kong
Franklin Lachenmyer
Henry Lachenmyer
Sophia Lorena Lazaro
Anthony Legaspi
Zachary Long
Sergio Maldonado
Jose Martinez
Collin McNicholas
Sophie Mejia
Angelo Meraz
Andrea Miramontes
Nathan Morales Par
Jenna Navarrete
Arisbeth Orozco
Mary Jane Perez
Gabriella Pinto
Mirella Ramirez
Tria Reyes
Jocelyn Rios
Jared Roque
Neva Rose
Kayla Sanchez
Nathan Sanchez
Barclae Sandoval
Mollie Sarkany
Ava Saucedo
Daisy Torres
Kyle Turner
Angel Uchenna
Alexis Veleztan
Adrian Vinuya
Liliana Ward
Makenna Weiland
Please Pray for . . .
George Pieraldi
Julie Chin
Robert Billmire
Peter & Sheryl Smith
Ed Fletcher
Connie Guaraglia
Joyce Guaraglia
Jean Bisbiglia
John Vargas
Virgilio Legaspi
Mariah ‘Mia’ Vicedo
Pearle Cezair
Mary Helen
Arlene Pershing
Maria Jesus Vargas
Joey Medeiros
Monica Dias
Dora Romero
John O’Keefe
Edgar Romero
Jeanette Frazee
Theresa Pellini
James Balliet
Joe Zipp
Michael Babik
Barbara Maloon
Juanita Estrellas
Nhi Nguyen
Mary Young
Peggy Miller
Dan Bautista
JoAnne Salazar
Raymond Bautisa
Anne Tran
Sara Le Fargo
Dee Darbo
Paul Prado
Cleto Contero
Mary Valladon
Rudy Griego
Elio Dianda
Manuela Agabao
Al Rocha
Maria Beam
Amelia Ramos
Felisimia Toste
Nelson Baylosis
Judith Edrosolam
Marie Choury
Mel Mederious
Dorothy Feick
Joel Rivera
Joseph Fantos
Ella Pennington
Ricardo Duenas
Madeline Marks
Marie Fletcher
Olivia Camcam
Mike Silva
Maria Nguyen
Nieves David
Khoat Nguyen
Joseph Leo
Sheila Bickerton
JJ Moisa
Maria Escobar
Jesse Aguon
Joyce White
Mercedita Lara
Angelita Corral
Tu Nguyen
James Jandik
Ruth Brennan
Peter Purificacion
Shirley Silveria
Nicole Coffey-Nell
Gwendolyn DeVries
Agnes Lemos
Jayla Walker
Julia DeSousa
Michael Rogers
Erica Arnerich Seawell
Margarita Ferreira
Deacon David Resendez
Aliston Goodwin
Dolly Jacoby
** If any person on this list is well and no longer in need
of prayers please inform the parish office. If they pass
away please let us know so we can pray for the repose of
his or her soul.
May 3rd to May 10th
Sun.
5/3
Mon.
5/4
Tues.
5/5
Wed.
5/6
Thurs.
5/7
Fri.
5/8
Sat.
5/9
Sun.
5/10
(A) Anniversary
7:30 am
9:00 am
10:30 am
12:15 pm
7:00 am
8:15 am
7:00 am
8:15 am
7:00 am
8:15 am
7:00 am
8:15 am
7:00 am
8:15 am
8:15 am
4:30 pm
7:30 am
9:00 am
10:30 am
12:15 pm
(B) Birthday
Deceased of Nguyễn Family
Kenneth Schexnayder †
Parishioners
Elvira Espinozo †
Peter & Maria Trần †
Allan Braga †
Mary †
Maynard Berroyo (B)
Dora & Mariano (A)
Vivencio Paraguya †
Jan Hemphill †
Belen & Fabian Antonio †
John J. DeMotto †
Francisca Morales †
Catherine Lương †
Annie Lawrence †
Parishioners †
Joseph Tang Van Âu †
Charles Gonzales †
Teresa Trần †
Goyita Hernandez †
(L) Living
(†) Deceased
Who Entered into Eternal Life
†
†
†
†
†
John Munce
— March 9, 2015
Evelyn Thude
— April 10, 2015
Carol Supriano
— April 13, 2015
Olivia Rarey
— April 21, 2015
Walter Frederickson — April 24, 2015
Let Perpetual Light Shine Upon Them
Please pray for
Alex Bradley
who is serving in the
Middle East
READINGS FOR THE WEEK OF May 4th
Monday:
Acts 14:5-18; Psalm 115:1-4, 15-16;
John 14:21-26
Tuesday:
Acts 14:19-28; Psalm 145:10-13ab, 21;
John 14:27-31a
Wednesday: Acts 15:1-6; Psalm 122:1-5; John 15:1-8
Thursday: Acts 15:7-21; Psalm 96:1-3, 10;
John 15:9-11
Friday:
Acts 15:22-31; Psalm 57:8-10, 12;
John 15:12-17
Saturday: Acts 16:1-10; Psalm 100:1b-3, 5;
John 15:18-21
Sunday:
Acts 10:25-36, 34-35, 44-48; Psalm 98:1-4;
1 John 4:7-10; John 15:9-17
Pastoral Council
Father Tom is actively recruiting new members for the advisory committee known as the Pastoral Council. This is a
working committee that assists Father Tom and supports Parish activities such as special celebrations, picnic, etc.
The Parish Council meets on the 4th Wednesday of each Month at 7:00 pm. If you are interested in becoming a
member, please complete the form below and return it to the Parish Office or put in the Offertory baskets at Mass.
Deadline for sign up is Sunday, May 10th, 2015.
Name_______________________________________________
Phone Number _______________________________________
Email Address ________________________________________
Please list why you are interested in participating on the Council:
____________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
From The Principal of St. Felicitas School
— Meghan Jorgensen —
Our talent show proved to be a night filled with the
amazing talents of our students. We had pianists, singers,
dancers, Tai Kwan Do experts, and a fantastic grand
finale performed by our eighth graders. It was a great
tribute to the arts and impressive gifts of our students. It
was a great turn out and our gym was filled to max
capacity!
On Friday, we continued to keep the Burrell family
in our prayers and honored Dianne’s memory at our
school mass. She was an amazingly dedicated mother
and member of our community that went home to God in
March, as a result of her long battle with cancer. She will
live forever in our hearts and we rejoice in the fact that
she currently resides in God’s loving arms.
I was very proud and honored to participate this
weekend in the mass for all of our first communicants in
our parish. They have worked hard and every time I
witness the sheer excitement in our young students to
receive the sacrament it deeply warms my heart. Please
continue joining me in prayer for all of our children
receiving their first communion.
You are always in my prayers,
Meghan Jorgensen
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL
Week of July 6th to July 10th, 2015
Contact Sandi Walton 347-1282
Youth Ministry Calendar of Coming Events
Youth Ministry Pancake Breakfast—5/3/15 at 7 am-Noon
(1 hour volunteer per candidate)
Mandatory Sponsor retreat—5/17/15
Lafayette Retreat Center
(English/Spanish communities)
From: 9:30 am — 2:30 pm
(Mass at 1 pm — parents are encouraged/welcome to join)
Final Youth Ministry Mass and Celebration
5/24/15 at 10:00 am
Parents/guardians, sponsors and families are invited
Confirmation Dress Rehearsal/Practice—
Wednesday 6/3/15 at 6-9 pm
Sponsors are required to attend
Confirmation Day
PARA DAR FRUTO
“Hijos míos: No amemos solamente de palabra; amemos de verdad y con las obras”. Las palabras
de Juan nos llegan hoy cuando el pasaje del Evangelio nos presenta con la gran imagen del viñedo y
las ramas. Jesús usa la imagen como un aviso a los que se han empezado a distanciar de la senda del
Señor. Esto sucede cuando amamos a Dios y a otros “con palabras o dichos” y no con “la verdad y
las obras”. ¿Qué significa para nosotros “permanecer en Cristo”? El Señor nos da un ejemplo con la
extensión de la metáfora. Si permanecemos en él, daremos mucho fruto. Como ramas sacamos la
fuerza de Cristo que es la viña. Esa fuerza nos facilita dar fruto –hacer el trabajo de los verdaderos
Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.
discípulos.
TRADICIONES DE NUESTRA FE
Durante la Última Cena, Jesús dijo a sus apóstoles: “Yo soy la vid, ustedes son los sarmientos” (Juan
15:5). Jesús añade que los sarmientos (ramas) que permanecen en él, dan mucho fruto. Según la
agricultura, la vid es una parra, es decir, una planta perenne de ramas frondosas.
Una parte importante de la vid son las hojas. Es obvio que una vid tiene hojas, pero Jesús no las
menciona, prefiere enfocarse en los sarmientos. Las partes de la vid son las raíces, tronco, sarmientos,
hojas, flores y fruto. Según esta división Jesús sería el tronco, pero él dice ser la vid completa. Esta es
una imagen de la unidad que Jesús quiere entre sus seguidores. Recordemos que Jesús celebra la
Última Cena con sus discípulos. La comunidad de discípulos unidos a Jesús formamos la vid. Los
sarmientos o ramas conducen agua y minerales a las hojas, flores y frutos, y son útiles en tanto estén
unidos a la vid. Lo mismo vale de los cristianos, discípulos de Jesús. Son ellos y ellas los que hacen
presente y le dan vida a Jesús en el mundo de hoy.
—Fray Gilberto Cavazos-Glz, OFM, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.
LECTURAS DE HOY
Primera lectura — Bernabé explica a los discípulos en Jerusalén la
conversión de Pablo
(Hechos 9:26-31).
Salmo
— Bendito sea el Señor. Aleluya (Salmo 22 [21]).
Segunda lectura — Dios nos ordena que creamos en el nombre de
Jesucristo y que nos amemos como él nos ama
(1 Juan 3:18-24).
Evangelio
— Los que viven en Jesús y Jesús vive en ellos
producen mucho fruto (Juan 15:1-8).
TAREAS PEQUEÑAS
Cada pequeña tarea de la vida cotidiana
es parte de la armonía total del universo.
—Santa Teresa de Lisieux
Cộng Đoàn Nữ Vương Hòa Bình và Trường Hòa Bình
xin chúc mừng quý phụ huynh có con em trong
Lớp Xưng Tội - Rước Lễ Lần Đầu
April 26, 2015
Bùi Sim Dillan Conner
Hồ Thị Tuyết Sabrina
Đặng Hạnh Thảo Kimberly
Hoàng Minh Thuận
Hứa David
Nguyễn Bảo Ethan
Nguyễn Công Danh
Nguyễn Đạt Paul
Nguyễn Hằng Phương Thy
Nguyễn Khánh Linh Kelly
Nguyễn Phương Viviana
Nguyễn Quốc Việt Ethan
Nguyễn Minh Ronald
Nguyễn Thị Hà Tiên
Nguyễn Phước Vĩnh Bình
Phạm Hải Henry
Phạm Thục Vy Emma
Phan Tuấn Anh Michael
Phan Cao Hữu Phước
Trần Bảo Nhi Theresa
Tran Dang Khoa Matthew
Trần Nguyên Châu
Trần Tú Quyên Phoebe
Trương Đức Ethan
Trương Duy Andy
Vũ Maria Phượng Trang
Vũ Mỹ Hạnh Katie