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SATURDAY, AUGUST 18 SATURDAY, AUGUST 18 5:00pm Lizz Baca † Baca Family SVdP Thrift Store Day, 8:00am, Walnut Parking Lot Matthew 25 Ministries Sorting 9:00am, St. Paul’s Dick Carlson † Nancy Carlson SUNDAY, AUGUST 19 SUNDAY, AUGUST 19 Open Gym—OLA Basketball 7:30am, Parish Hall 8:00am Rod Hill (birthday) † Donna Hill MONDAY, AUGUST 20 9:30am Exner & Devlin Families † Kathleen Davis Christian Meditation 4:00pm, Church 11:00am Wilma Bower † Bower Family Pastoral Council Meeting 6:30pm, St. Paul’s Room 7:30pm OLA Parishioners RCIA Inquiry 6:30pm, St. Anne’s Room Boy Scouts 6:45pm, St. John’s Hall MONDAY, AUGUST 20 TUESDAY, AUGUST 21 St. Bernard, Abbot, Doctor of the Church PERT Club Set-Up 8:15am, St. John’s Hall 8:00am George Michael Larivee † John Damonte Family PERT Club Meeting 9:00am, St. John’s Hall TUESDAY, AUGUST 21 Finance Council Meeting 6:30pm, St. Paul’s Room St. Pius X, Pope Baptismal Preparation 7:00pm, St. Anne’s Room 8:00am Souls in Purgatory Anonymous WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22 Legion of Mary Meeting 8:45am, St. Paul’s Room WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22 THURSDAY, AUGUST 23 The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary Girl Scout Troop 103 Meeting 6:00pm, Seton Hall 8:00am Fr. Thomas Dermody † Strategic Planning Meeting 6:30pm, St. Paul’s Room William Leighton-Armah (Bday) Wife Janice Living the Word 7:00pm, Rectory Living Room & Kids FRIDAY, AUGUST 24 THURSDAY, AUGUST 23 Parish Conference 5:30pm, Church SATURDAY, AUGUST 25 St. Rose of Lima, Virgin Holy Land Sales, after all Masses, Under Portico 8:00am Merle Finnegan † Pauline & Don Gilmour Parish Conference 12:00pm, St. John’s Hall FRIDAY, AUGUST 24 Parish Conference Registration 12:00pm, St. Paul’s St. Bartholomew, Apostle 8:00am Exner & Devlin Families † Kathleen Davis SATURDAY, AUGUST 25 St. Louis & St. Joseph Calasanz, Priest 5:00pm Fran Reilly † Litchfield-Stacy Family Monday, August 20 Ez 24:15-23; Dt 32:18-19, 20, 21; Mt 19:16-22 Tuesday, August 21 Ez 28:1-10; Dt 32:26-27ab, 27cd-28, 30, 35cd-36ab; Wisdom has prepared a banquet of food and wine (1), Mt 19:23-30 an image expressive of God´s communion with us. Wednesday, August 22 For those who desire life (Ps), Jesus gives his own Ez 34:1-11; Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6; Mt 20:1-16 flesh and blood (3). Thus we shall be filled with the Thursday, August 23 Spirit (2). Ez 36:23-28; Ps 51:12-13, 14-15, 18-19; Mt 22:1-14 Friday, August 24 Rv 21:9b-14; Ps 145:10-11, 12-13, 17-18; Jn 1:45-51 Saturday, August 25 Ez 43:1-7ab; Ps 85:9ab and 10, 11-12, 13-14; Mt 23:1-12 Sunday, August 26 Jos 24:1-2a, 15-17, 18b; Ps 34:2-3, 16-17, 18-19, 20- 21; Eph 5:21-32 or 5:2a, 25-32; Jn 6:60-69 OUR PARISH

Jesus offers eternal life The Church continues to reflect on sixth chapter of St John’s Gospel where Jesus said that He is the Bread of life that God gave to the world to give eternal life. Jesus, Who is God took a body like ours and came to live with us. He is God in the flesh which He took to destroy death and give eternal life to all who believe and feed on Him. He gave His Body and Blood to give us life. The giving of His Body and Blood shows His great love for us.

Faith Formation Registration For OLA’s Fulfill the Promise Capital Campaign is Fall Classes steadily moving along with approximately 4,000,000 Please do not wait until the last moment to register in Gifts and Pledges received. your child. Registrations will again be taken on Sunday OLA is most grateful, although there is still much August 26th, from 8 am to 10:30am in the Parish Offi- work to be done. If you have not made your pledge, ce, OR you can pick up a Registration Form in the Pa- rish Office. Contact Joan Cotton at 916-488-4626 or please pick-up a pledge form in the back of the send an email to [email protected]. Church, in the Parish Office, or download one from Thank you! the website. Or if you would like one mailed to you, please contact Elisabeth Gustorf, Campaign  EUCHARIST PARENT/STUDENT MEETING Coordinator at 916.481.5115 ext.203. OLA needs th YOU! September 18 , 2018 Together we can make this Campaign a Success!  CONFIRMATION PARENT/STUDENT MEETING September 25th, 2018 PERT CLUB MEETING Questions? Contact Joan Cotton at Tuesday, August 21, 2018 [email protected] PERT Club members, guests and prospective mem- bers will meet and celebrate its 14th annual Hawai- Martha Mary Ministry Gathering ian Food Festival on Tuesday, August 21, 2018, in Thursday, September 6th St. John's Hall, OLA at 11:00 am. After a short Please mark your calendars for the meeting with club news, stories, door prizes and September Gathering of this Min- LOTTO drawings, the special buffet lunch with istry: September 6th , at 10:30 am your special mouthwatering delicacies will be in St. John’s Hall. Included for served. Don't forget to wear you’re your most color- this time will be an opening pray- ful festive finery, and bring your own place setting, er-meditation, a review of events cup and glass, and some non-perishable foods for under development for future the St. Vincent de Paul Food Locker. BINGO, with gatherings, and a light lunch- cash prizes, will follow the lunch. The Kitchen snack time with opportunity for visiting and greeting any interest- Crew is asked to arrive by 9:30, am to help decorate ed women who attend these and prepare food presentation. If you have any monthly gatherings. Thanks to all who help with questions, call Jane at 359-7126, or George at 483- their talents for this Women’s Ministry. For more 7194. information, please email Joan at [email protected]. Bulletin Typo We offer our apologies for the typo on the LIVING THE WORD article about St. Maximilian Kolbe, which Every Thursday we deeply regret. 7:00 pm Thank you for your understanding! In the Rectory OLA SCHOOL NEWS

Wednesdays (Grades 7 - 8) 7:00pm - 8:30pm Tuesdays (Grades 9 - 12) 7:00pm - 8:30pm Meetings are held in Seton Hall. For more information about Youth Groups, Welcome to the new families and staff who have please contact OLA´s Youth Minister, joined our OLA community, and welcome back to Johann Rubia-Miller at (916) 481-5115 or all returning families. We look forward to positive Email: [email protected] experiences and the growth our children will make academically, socially, and spiritually. Check out our upcoming youth events! “Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace  World Youth Day in the soul.” Panama, January 22 - January 27, 2019 ~Saint Augustine

Please continue to save the Box Tops for Education. Thank you to everyone who turned them in to the school. We earned $1000.00 for the school with them!

Any high school youth interested in attending, please contact Johann Miller, OLA Youth Minister, at [email protected], as soon as possible.

Encounter Eucharistic Adoration & Fellowship 2nd Thursday of every month 7:00 pm - Adoration Chapel The Fulton Sheen House hosts Eucharistic Adoration for high schoolers and young adults the 2nd Thursday of every month at 7:00pm in the adoration chapel. Come and meet other Catholic youth and young adults from the Sacramento area. For more information, contact Malcolm MacDonald at [email protected] "“The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host." -Ven. Fulton J. Sheen. The Queenship of Mary

ary is Queen because she is uniquely conformed to her Son, both on the earthly journey and in heavenly glory.M Ephrem the Syrian, Syria’s great saint, said of Mary’s queenship that it derives from her motherhood: she is Mother of the Lord, of the King of Kings (cf. Is 9:1-6) and she points Jesus out to us as our life, our salvation, and our hope…. She shares in God’s responsibility for the world and in God’s love for the world…. The royalty and kingship of Christ is interwoven with humility, service, and love. It is above all serving, helping, and loving…. Mary is Queen in her service to God for humanity; she is a Queen of love who lives the gift of herself to God so as to enter into his plan of man’s salvation… She helps us. She is Queen precisely by loving us, by helping us in our every need; she is our sister, a humble handmaid. How does Mary exercise this queenship of service and love? By watching over us, her children: the children who turn to her in prayer, to thank her or to ask her for her motherly protection and her heavenly help, perhaps after having lost our way, or when we are oppressed by suffering or anguish because of the sorrowful and harrowing vicissitudes of life. In serenity or in life’s darkness let us address Mary, entrusting our- selves to her continuous intercession so that she may obtain for us from the Son every grace and mercy we need for our pilgrimage on the highways of the world. Through the Virgin Mary let us turn with trust to the One who rules the world and holds in his hand the future of the universe…. The title “Queen” is thus a title of trust, joy, and love. And we know that the One who holds a part of the world’s destinies in her hand is good, that she loves us and helps us in our difficulties. (Source: Pope Benedict XVI, Magnificat) Marian Reflection Listen: “The modern man gets back to OUR FAITH TEACHES nothingness through despair; the Christian knows nothingness only through self- WELCOMING THE REFUGEE negation, which is humility . . . Mary went AND MIGRANT so deep down into Nothingness that she became exalted…And her exaltation was also her Assumption.” “God Shows No Partiality” ~Ven. Fulton Sheen From its earliest days, the Church viewed itself as a pilgrim people, “strangers in a strange land” (Exodus Ponder: Which form of nothingness do I experience most often? Where do I find God in 2:22). Jesus embraced the undesirable – the leper and nothingness? How can such humility bring exaltation? the Samaritan – and taught in Mathew 25: “For I was hungry and you gave me food…a stranger and you Respond: Mother Mary, give me your wisdom that I might embrace my lowliness. also rise. welcomed me…” His followers under- stood that they were to see the face of Christ in the oth- Family Connection er, and that Jew or Greek, free or slave, all are made Theme: Eternal Life. in the image of God and Breaking Open the Word therefore possess equal dig- Suggested text for faith sharing: Today’s Gospel Step One: Listen to the Word nity. “God shows no par- As you hear this reading about Jesus as the living bread, tiality,” Paul tells us what words or phrases strike you? What part of this (Romans 2:11). promise touches you most deeply? The Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Step Two: Look into Your Life Church teaches that “since something of the glory of Question for Children: How does receiving communion God shines on the face of every person, the dignity of help you grow in your faith? How does it help you love every person before God is the basis of the dignity of others? man before other men.” Question for Youth: Jesus promises us eternal life if we This notion that we all have equal dignity because follow him and believe. What makes it hard for you to we all are made in the image and likeness of God is believe? What is easy about faith? central to the Church’s social Gospel, and central to Question for Adults: How does your faith in Jesus its teaching on the treatment of migrant and refugees. nourish your own life? How does the Eucharist nourish you? Continued next week LIVE, LEARN &ENJOY YOUR FAITH DIOCESAN EVENTS

Shepherds Field Olive Wood Handcrafts Miscarriage Support Workshops. Three August 25 & 26, 2018 workshops will be offered at Good Shepherd parish in Elk Grove: 8/17 from 12:00 – 2:00 pm for clergy, religious and office staff, 8/18 from 9:00 – 11:00 am for medical professionals, and A group from the Holy Land (Bethlehem & Jerusalem) 8/18 from 1:00 – 3:00 pm for the general public. will be selling religious articles after masses to support There is no cost to attend but preregistration by the Catholic Christian minorities in Bethlehem. As a tra- 8/15 is requested. Contact the Good Shepherd dition, many of the Catholic families in the Holy Land parish office at 916-684-5722 or work in small workshops to produce religious articles [email protected] from olive wood. Sales will be used to help and support the Catholics in the Holy Land and to encourage them Camp Pendola - Family Camp 2018. not to immigrate. Family Camp 2018 is coming to Camp Pendola! Join us from September 1-3, 2018 for this opportunity to spend time with your family up in CHRIST THE KING the pines, unplugged and away from the demands PASSIONIST RETREAT CENTER of your daily schedules. Rates begin at $175, and will cover all food and activities. For a BEREAVEMENT RETREAT breakdown of the prices and registration WE BECOME LIKE YOU, O GOD AND information, please visit PRAISE YOU FOREVER www.pendola.org/family-camp-1 or contact SEPTEMBER 7, 2018 Jennifer Campbell at [email protected]. 9:30 am – 2:30 pm Presented by Father Tom Bonacci CP A day of hope, healing and support for those who are grieving * Registration starts at 9:30 pm. * Concludes with Eucharist. * Fee: $40, includes lunch. * Participants are encouraged to bring pictures of de ceased loved ones, candles, artifacts, etc. to establish a Memorial Altar. For Registration or any questions email: [email protected] or Call: 916-725-4720 x 301. Register online at:www.ChristTheKingRetreatcenter.org

St. Francis of Assisi Mini Retreat How to Stay Connected to God in a WORD OF LIFE Wounded Society Sunday September 9, 2018 “Never tire of firmly speaking out in defense of life from its conception and do not be deterred 4:30-5:30pm - Meet Sr. Joyce at a book signing in from the commitment to defend the dignity of Brunsman Hall every human person with courageous 6:00-8:00pm – Retreat will be held in the church determination. Christ is with you: be not afraid!” There is no registration nor fee. Rather, we are asking for goodwill offerings for her. Address of John Paul II to the Bishops and Apostolic Administrators of Albania on their “Ad Limina” Visit, For more information please email February 3, 2001 © 2001 Libreria Editrice Vaticana. [email protected] Used with permission. All rights reserved.

PLEASE NOTE: All articles for bulletin must be submitted two Fridays prior to the bulletin you want your information in (e.g., for 9/2 bulletin, due 8/24), to the Parish Bulletin Email: [email protected], with copy to our secretary, Shannon Langer [email protected]. Thank you! STEWARDSHIP

OFFERING Weekend of August 12 Weekend Offertory: $ 10,567.07 Electronic Giving: $ 3,497.24 Total: $ 14,064.31 Average Weekly Budget Amount: $ 12,500.00

“Watch carefully then how you live, not as foolish persons but as wise…” EPHESIANS 5:15 A wise person recognizes that all we have and all we are comes from God. A wise person thanks God continually throughout the day for all His many blessings. A wise person realizes that God has blessed us for a reason and that He wants us to help Him build His kingdom of earth.

Second Collection Carr Fire Victims A member of our OLA community would like to ask August 25-26th, 2018 you to contribute to a school supply drive. These sup- plies will serve the students at Will Rogers Middle Next week we turn in solidarity to the needs of our brother and sisters in Redding and Shasta/Trinity School where one of our fellow parishioners works. counties as they struggle to heal and rebuild their lives Donations can be left in the designated bin at the back and their community in the wake of the recent wild fires. of church and/or in the school office through 8/31/18. Thank you in advance for your generosity! Thank you!

St Joseph Calasanz (Calasanctius) August 25 oseph Calasanz was a Spanish priest, born in Aragon (Spain) in 1557. He was well educated J in philosophy, law and theology. His father wanted him to marry and continue the family, but on recovery from an illness which brought him close to death, he decided to become a priest. In 1592 Joseph went to , where he became a theologian in the service of Cardinal Marcoantonio Colonna and a tutor to his nephew; he also worked alongside St. Camillus de Lellis during the plague that hit Rome at the time and helped carry the bodies of the dead on his own shoulders to burial. Rome offered a splendid field for works of charity, especially for the instruction of neglected and homeless children, many of whom had lost their parents. Joseph joined a Confraternity of Christian Doctrine and gathered the boys and girls from the streets and brought them to school. After some struggles with the teachers and with the help of some fellow priests, in November of 1597, he opened the first public free school in Europe. He was a man of great moral courage. He accepted Jewish children into his schools and made sure they were treated equally. He founded the Clerks Regular of the Christian Schools () and suffered many trials in later life at the hands of jealous colleagues and Church authorities, due to his friendship with the scientist ; he shared and defended Galileo’s heliocentric view of the cosmos and even after Galileo was condemned and became blind, he stood by him. He was noted especially for his patience in the midst of suffering. Joseph Calasanz died in died in Rome on August 25,1648, at the age of 90. Eight years after his death, Pope Alexander VII cleared his name and that of the Pious Schools. He was beatified in 1748 by Pope Benedict XIV and canonized by Pope Clement XIII in 1767. In 1948, Pope Pius XII declared him the patron of Christian popular schools. Today the congregation has 1421 members in 32 countries on four continents (Europe, Asia, Africa and America). Among those taught in Piarist schools were Francisco Goya, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, Gregor Mendel, and Victor Hugo. A beautiful painting of him by Francisco de Goya entitle The Last Communion of Saint Jose de Calasanz (1819) hangs in the Church of the Escuelas Pias de San Antón, Madrid, Spain.