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The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph
Thank you!
Living as Holy Families
There are so many people
who give of themselves for
this community in a variety of ways. On behalf of
the community, I want to
thank all those women,
men and children who
took time out of their busy
schedules to help clean
and decorate the church
for Christmas. We thank all those who worked
with our children as they participated in the
celebrations of our Advent and
Christmas seasons. We are blessed with
beautiful choirs. Working together, each of us
with our own gifts and talents, we give birth
to Christ within our community. What a grace
our community is. Merry Christmas!
Fr. Mike
The Parish Office will be closed this
week, December 28th
through January 1st.
We wish you a safe and happy
New Year’s holiday!
Start Your New Year off Right!
The familiarity of family
life can sometimes blind
us to see the goodness in
each other. This feast reminds us to open our eyes
and be “astonished” at the
goodness of each other
rather than being anxious
about our own concerns.
Families grow in holiness
when each person in the family—from parents to the
smallest child and including anyone extended the
hospitality of the family—is treated as a member of
God’s family and, therefore, holy.
This is challenging when sometimes all we can see is
each other’s faults. It takes a great deal of dying to
self to get beyond the normal, everyday annoyances
that are part of family life and see others as holy and
deserving of our honor, love, and respect. Mary and
Joseph were not free from family struggles; after all,
they lost Jesus on a trip! And when they found him
they had to struggle to understand who he was and
who he was meant to become. In doing so, they were
able to help Jesus (and themselves) grow in wisdom,
age, and grace. In this same love and care for each
other we also grow in holiness as a family.
—Living Liturgy
Join us on New Year’ s Day,
Friday, January 1st for
Eucharistic Adoration from
8am-9am and then we celebrate the
Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother
of God with Mass at 9am. Please note:
there is no 7:30am Mass that day.
T
H
A
N
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December 27, 2015
Everyone is welcome
to attend our
Anointing of the Sick Mass
Saturday, January 2nd
9:00am
Y
O
U
!
!
Many thanks to Encuentro Matrimonial and
everyone who came to help clean the church.
We appreciate all your hard
work to help us prepare for Christmas!
The Catechism of the Catholic Church
says this about the sacrament of the
Anointing of the Sick:
"The special grace of the sacrament of the Anointing of the
Sick has as its effects: the uniting of the sick person to the
passion of Christ, for his own good and that of the whole
Church; the strengthening, peace, and courage to endure in
a Christian manner the sufferings of illness or old age; the
forgiveness of sins, if the sick person was not able to obtain
it through the sacrament of penance; the restoration of
health, if it is conducive to the salvation of his soul; the
preparation for passing over to eternal life" (CCC 1532).
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Mass Intentions
Saturday………….........December 26
5:00PM……………….…†Clifford Edward Heffler III
Sunday………….....…...December 27
8:30AM………………….†Nepomuceno Alcazar
10:00AM………….……..†Aaron Shepard
11:30AM………….……..People of St. Didacus
Monday………………...December 28
7:30AM…….……………..†Albert Shepard
Tuesday………..…..…..December 29
6:00PM…………...........†Berta Long
Wednesday……......….December 30
8:30AM……….….……..†Fr. Raymond Moore
Thursday………...…….December 31
7:30AM………………….†Ray & Helen Ranta
Friday…………...……...January 1
9:00AM…………...…....…†Kathleen Conaty
Saturday………….........January 2
9:00AM………………….Wendy Gibbons, Spec. Int.
5:00PM……………….…†Odessa Watson
Weekly Events at St. Didacus
Sunday, December 27, 2015
Location
Monday, December 28, 2015
Location
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Location
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Location
Eucharistic Adoration
7:30am-8:30am Church
Thursday, December 31, 2015
Location
Friday, January 1, 2016
Location
Saturday, January 2, 2016
Location
Eucharistic Adoration
3:30pm-5:00pm Church
Thank you to everyone who
decorated the Church for
Our Lady of Guadalupe and
to those who cooked breakfast.
$646 was raised that
day that will go to our
Religious Education program.
GIFTS OF OUR TREASURY
Readings for the Week of December 27, 2015
Sunday:
Monday:
Tuesday:
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday:
Saturday:
Next Sunday:
1 Sm 1:20-22, 24-28 or Sir 3:2-6, 12-14/Ps
84:2-3, 5-6, 9-10/1 Jn 3:1-2, 21-24 or Col
3:12-21 or 3:12-17/Lk 2:41-52
1 Jn 1:5--2:2/Ps 124:2-5, 7-8/Mt 2:13-18
1 Jn 2:3-11/Ps 96:1-3, 5-6/Lk 2:22-35
1 Jn 2:12-17/Ps 96:7-10/Lk 2:36-40
1 Jn 2:18-21/Ps 96:1-2, 11-13/Jn 1:1-18
Nm 6:22-27/Ps 67:2-3, 5-6, 8/Gal 4:4-7/
Lk 2:16-21
1 Jn 2:22-28/Ps 98:1-4/Jn 1:19-28
Is 60:1-6/Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-13/
Eph 3:2-3a, 5-6/Mt 2:1-12
THE WEEK OF December 20, 2015
General Collection
Average Weekly Parish Operating Costs
Deficit for the week of December 20, 2015
$4,786.00
$7,155.00
—$2,369.00
Building Fund—December 20, 2015
$ 697.00
The gift of your treasure helps us meet our weekly obligations.
During this season of giving, let us remember the most important gift we
have received – being children of God. As God’s children, it’s important
that we express our love for others as well. Tell your spouse, children and
other family members and friends that you love them, frequently.
Please Pray For
Welcome to St. Didacus Parish!
Masses
Saturday 5:00pm
Sunday 8:30am & 10:00am English
11:30am in Spanish
Daily Mass
Mon., Thurs., Fri. 7:30am
Wednesday 8:30am & Tues. 6:00pm
Eucharistic Adoration
Wed. 7:30am—8:30am / Saturday 3:30pm—5:00pm
First Fridays 8:00am—9:00am
Confessions—Saturdays 3:30pm or by appt.
Baptisms: Arrangements must be made 3 months in
advance. Contact the Parish Office for information.
Weddings: Arrangements must be made at least 9
months in advance. Please contact the Parish Office.
Pastor, Fr. Michael J. Sinor
Parish Office 619-284-3472
December 27, 2015
Rosalba Alarcon
Maria Luz Arrellano
Diann Bauer
Dan Bauer
Herbert Baxter
Robert Bayles
Jessica Becerra
Martha Becerra
Ron Berry
Rita Bonnell
Norm Boyer
Herminia Brignoni
Ibeth Brignoni
Ruben Campos
Marie Cavanaugh
Gail Cedercrans
Eileen Connolly
Cecil Crews
Aaron Damishia
Irene Davis
MaryLou De Luca
Pauline Dease
Bob Demers
Cecelia Dueber
Mary Farrell
Santiago Fontes
Susan Guenzel
Dolores Hansel
Kelley Kessler
Bernie Kober
Marilyn Kober
Elizabeth La Costa
Virginia Lantry
Juanita Lopez
Maria Lopez
Anthony Martinez
Rosalie Martinez
Claire Meighan
Terrence McCabe
Emma McPhereson
Dolores Mediano
Dominick Palestini
Gladys Palestini
Diane Porter
Antonia Raya
Dolores Robertson
Atina Rodriguez
Aaron Rodriguez
Alette Rodriguez
Jeff Salazar
Christine Segura
Mark Silke
Michael Smith
Angel Tapia
Pedro Tapia
Helen Terry
Merida Tirado
Therese Tucker
Carol Verdon
The Webb Family
Jason Williamson
Joan Williamson
Adalina Zarate
Josephine
And the special intentions in our Book of Needs
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4630 34th Street, San Diego CA 92116
December 27, 2015
284-8730
We wish you a blessed
a n d sa fe New Yea r !
See you in 2016!
There will be no Religious
Education classes on
Wednesday, December
30th. See you back on
Wednesday, January 6th!
Happy New Year!
13th Annual
West Coast Biblical Studies Conference
“The Bible, the Family and the New Evangelization”
January 29-30, 2016, Friday and Saturday
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Catholic Church
13541 Stoney Creek Rd., San Diego CA 92129
Featuring Scott Hahn, Michael Barber, John Kinkaid.
The Conference is $50 and you can Register at
JPCatholic.com.
Year-End Charitable Gifts
A gift of your securities, including
stocks or bonds, is an easy way to
make a gift to St. Didacus Parish.
By making a gift of your
appreciated securities, you can
avoid paying capital gains tax that
would otherwise be due if you sold
these assets. Contributions made by December 31st may be
deducted on this year’s taxes. For more information on
giving a gift through securities, please call the Parish Office.
In this week’s Gospel we hear the
story of Mary and Joseph searching
for Jesus for three days and finally
finding him in the temple in Jerusalem. Our stained-glass window
design is taken from a painting by
German artist, Heinrich Hofmann,
entitled “the Boy Jesus in the
Temple.” It was painted in 1881.
In a 1901 article published in the London Sunday Strand,
author Kathleen Schlesinger said this about the painting:
"There is a wonderful freshness about the picture of Christ in
the Temple; a breath of youthfulness, high promise and hope
pervades the composition and coloring. The chief interest of
course centers in the boy Christ in his robes of white and gold;
His eyes, fixed on nothing earthly, shine with supernatural light
almost dazzling in its intensity."
The artist, Hofmann, said this about the painting: “... I would
like to note down a few comments on the figures in the painting
of Christ in the Temple. In the old man who sits to the right I
thought to depict someone who firmly clings to the authority of
the law, and who is amazed by the new interpretations that the
boy gives, while the sophist loves to raise captious objections...and the white haired gentleman only shows goodnatured delight in the wise boy. On the left you see the only
one who really allows the divine words to flow into his heart
(perhaps it is Nicodemus who later visited the Savior at night),
and finally we have in the background the beardless man who
turns away with contempt from the conversation his colleagues
have with a child. About my conception of Jesus, the boy, I
cannot talk - I believe that the way I have painted him
expresses everything I tried to convey."
The original painting is owned by the Art Gallery in Dresden,
Germany. Hofmann’s studio painted a second copy of this
painting that hung for many years in Mr. Hofmann's home and
was sold to Mrs. Elise Drexler of San Francisco sometime
around 1904. In 1933, it was offered for sale by Mrs. Drexler
through Gump's in San Francisco and was purchased by John
D. Rockefeller, Jr., and given to The Riverside Church in New
York City where it hangs today.
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Advent at St. Didacus
School’s Christmas Program
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Posada
Pastorela
December 27, 2015
Pagina 6
La Sagrada Familia
7 Consejos del Papa Francisco
para ser mejores padres y
crecer junto con sus hijos
1. Un padre no quiere hijos iguales a sí mismo, sino
hijos sabios y libres: “Seré feliz cada vez que te vea
actuar con sabiduría, y me emocionaré cada vez que
te escuche hablar con rectitud”. “Y para que pudieras ser así (sabio), te enseñé lo que no sabías, corregí
errores que no veías. Te hice sentir un afecto profundo y al mismo tiempo discreto”.
2. Rigor y firmeza, antes que complicidad y protección. “Te di un testimonio de rigor y firmeza que tal
vez no comprendías, cuando hubieses querido sólo
complicidad y protección”. “Un padre sabe bien lo
que cuesta transmitir esta herencia: cuánta cercanía,
cuánta dulzura y cuánta firmeza.
3. Un padre presente en la familia, cercano a la
esposa y sus hijos. Un padre presente en la familia:
“que sea cercano a la esposa, para compartir todo,
alegrías y dolores, cansancios y esperanzas. Y que
sea cercano a los hijos en su crecimiento” Un padre
presente siempre: “cuando juegan y cuando tienen
ocupaciones, cuando son despreocupados y cuando
están angustiados, cuando se expresan y cuando son
taciturnos, cuando se lanzan y cuando tienen miedo,
cuando dan un paso equivocado y cuando vuelven a
encontrar el camino”.
4. Un padre presente no es un padre controlador.
Porque los padres demasiado controladores anulan a
los hijos, no los dejan crecer.
5. Un padre bueno es un padre paciente. El Papa
recordó la parábola del "hijo pródigo", o mejor del
"padre misericordioso". Los padres deben ser pacientes. Muchas veces no hay otra cosa que hacer más
que esperar; rezar y esperar con paciencia, dulzura,
magnanimidad y misericordia.
6. Sabe perdonar y no humilla, pero tampoco es
débil o complaciente . “Un buen padre sabe esperar
y sabe perdonar desde el fondo del corazón. Cierto,
sabe también corregir con firmeza: no es un padre
débil, complaciente, sentimental. El padre que sabe
corregir sin humillar es el mismo que sabe proteger
sin guardar nada para sí”.
7. “Sin la gracia que viene del Padre que está en
los cielos, los padres pierden valentía y abandonan
el campo. Pero los hijos necesitan encontrar a un
padre que los espera cuando regresan de sus fracasos.
27 de diciembre, 2015
RETIRO DE CONFIRMACION
Les recordamos que el retiro para los
jóvenes que se confirmaran el 31 de
mayo del 2016, será los días 29, 30 y
31 de enero.
Les pedimos a los papas que no han pagado,
que por favor lo hagan el martes 5 de enero y
nos entreguen una copia del certificado de
bautismo de su hijo/a.
Todos están invitados a la misa
de Unción de los Enfermos el
sábado 2 de enero a las 9 AM.
Celebración de María
Madre de Dios
Viernes 1° de Enero
la misa es a las 9:00 AM
El viernes primero de Enero es la fiesta de Santa
María Madre de Dios; también es el primer día del
año civil, el Año Nuevo, y el día de la Jornada
Mundial para pedir por paz en el mundo.
La oficina estará cerrada
esta semana, del lunes 28 de
diciembre al viernes 1° de
enero. Les deseamos un
Feliz Año 2016.
MUCHAS GRACIAS
A todas las personas que hicieron
posible la venta del día de la
Virgen de Guadalupe
Se vendió $ 646.00 que se utilizará para la
Educación Religiosa.
El Viernes Primero de Enero
del 2016, tendremos la Exposición del Santísimo Sacramento
de 8:00—9:00 AM para iniciar
con Jesús el nuevo año.
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