ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST 2020 Vision We are called to active discipleship to live the values taught by our Lord Jesus Christ through acts of faith, hope, and charity. As active disciples, we engage in a “mission” mode of evangelization, forming disciples and inspiring others to do the same. Strategic Vision We are a thriving community of disciples who see their role in the life and evangelizing mission of the Church, sustaining a parish school that continuously grows and increases its enrollment every year, and supporting a facility that architecturally highlights the beauty and spirituality of its border community. Mission We seek to be a community of active disciples who: • Are diverse, inclusive, and collaborative (Welcoming) • Continuously grow and share their faith with all generation of spiritual seekers (Word) • Are involved in a creative, vibrant liturgy (Worship) • Are involved in areas of service that impact its border community and the world (Witness) • Have a strong sense of stewardship, evident in the parish’s healthy finances, committed organization, and self -sustained ministries (Strengthening) • Are unafraid to grow by remembering the past, celebrating the present, and believing in the future (Growing) Mass Schedule 279 South Main Street Pastoral Staff Milpitas, CA 95035 Saturday Evening: Phone: (408) 262-2546 Rev. Msgr. Wilfredo S. Manrique, Pastor, 5:00 pm For Emergency: x316, [email protected] 7:00 pm (Tagalog) (408) 966-4612 Rev. Eduardo E. Obero, Parochial Vicar, Sunday: 7:30; 9:00 & 10:45 Fax: (408) 263-2564 x302, [email protected] am; 12:30 & 7:00 pm School: (408) 262-8110 Rev. Andres Ligot, JCD, In Residence Fax: (408) 262-0814 Chris Brazil, School Principal Weekdays: Monday through (408) 262-8110, [email protected] Saturday Mornings: 7:00 am Office Hours: Parish Office x301 Wednesdays: OLPH Novena Monday to Friday Mary Ann Gonzalo, Office Manager, Mass 6:30 pm Bulletin Editor x306 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. First Fridays: 7:00 pm 1:30 p.m.- 5:00 p.m. [email protected] [email protected] Holy Days: Schedule is Saturday – Sunday Ed Sacramento, Facilities Coordinator published prior to the day Closed x307 [email protected] [email protected] Sacraments Cory Mollat, Director of Faith Formation, Liturgist, x315, [email protected] Sacrament of Reconciliation Monica Gonzales, Admin Assistant of Faith Saturday: 4:00-4:45 pm or by appointment. Formation Office x305 Infant Baptism [email protected] Preparation can begin either before or after the birth of your child. Irene Banzon, Admin Assistant, x316 Contact the Parish Office at (408) 262-2546 for information [email protected] regarding our pre-Baptism preparation program. Arjay Endozo, Music Coordinator, x308, Adult Baptism [email protected] Contact the Parish Office (408) 262-2546 Macy Canasa, Confirmation Coordinator, Marriage x313 Weddings normally take place in the parish of the bride or the groom. [email protected] Couples wishing to marry must contact one of the priests at least six Ruben Cardenas, Youth Coordinator, x313 months before the proposed date of the wedding. [email protected]

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Although we are ive full weeks into the celebration of Easter, today’s readings focus on newness. Our Easter food leftovers may be long gone, but the readings insist on every moment’s freshness in the risen Jesus. The Acts of the Apostles depicts Paul and Barnabas relecting on all the innovative work that God has done with them. They have traveled hundreds of miles, introducing faith in Jesus Christ to all who listen, even Gentiles. For the dutiful Jewish scholar Paul, preaching to Gentiles is a completely unique development. Jesus calls Paul, and us, not to be afraid of new challenges: as John the Evangelist reports in Revelation, Jesus promises to “make all things new.” In the Gospel reading, Jesus even gives us a new commandment. The Hebrew Scriptures overlow with commandments, but Jesus knows we need one more, perfect mission: “love one another.” AN OCEAN NAMED RALPH Human nature confronts newness in a variety of ways. While some bold individuals avoid routine and actively seek out unusual experiences, a great many of us, fearing the unfamiliar, resist change. Jesus knows perfectly our human nature, and understands the common reluctance to mess with routine. Nonetheless he proclaims, “Behold, I make all things new.” During the Last Supper, he even goes so far as to pronounce a new commandment: “love one another.” To the observant Jews who are Jesus’ companions, receiving a new commandment might feel as shocking as hearing about a second moon orbiting the Earth, or a ifth ocean named Ralph. NOT ONE IOTA Mysteriously, the revolutionary newness of Jesus lows out of his profound obedience to ixed tradition, to God’s law. In the ifth chapter of Matthew, Jesus promises that he will destroy “not one iota,” not the smallest part of the Hebrew law. Instead, Jesus says, he has come to “fulill” the law. With his perfect obedience to God’s plan, Jesus fulills the letter of the law. At the same time, he demonstrates the spirit of the law by freely giving his life for us, out of loving concern for our eternal well-being. As St. Paul tells the Romans, “Love is the fulillment of the law.” God has given us rules to protect us and help us order our lives properly, but Jesus shows us that love makes the law all but unnecessary. A mother who loves her children has no need to remind herself of the commandment “Thou shall not kill.” Because of her loving instinct to nurture her children, she not only follows the Fifth Commandment, but transcends it, fulilling it by wanting to go further than it demands. She not only avoids murder, she protects and sustains life. Jesus’ revolution of love challenges us to meet each moment, each person, as a new opportunity to sacriice ourselves in love, doing more than the law requires.

Today’s Readings: Acts 14:21–27; Ps 145:8–9, 10–11, 12–13; Rev 21:1–5a; Jn 13:31–33a, 34–35

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Mass Intentions Upcoming Week’s Calendar Saturday - May 18, 2019 Monday - May 20, 2019 5:00PM Caitlin Susbilla (Birthday) All Church 6:00p-8:00p Confirmation Ceremony Masses Tuesday - May 21, 2019 Mila C Castuera (Healing) Hall Gym 3:00p-6:30p SJBS Jr Knights William Powell Jr (Healing) Yth Ctr 6:00p-8:30p Sr Legion of Mary Jeannette Villacarillo (Healing) Hall Gym 6:30p-7:45p Private Event - AAU BAL Kristine Kay Ramirez (Spec Int) Hall 2A 7:00p-9:00p Social Justice TODAY’S READINGS Maureen Asuncion † All Masses Hall 2B 7:00p-9:30p SARF Novice Training Jovencia Domingo † First Reading — Paul and Hall 1A 7:00p-10:00p Little Rock Bible Study Barnabas reported how God had Roberto P Ilustre † Hall Gym 7:45p-9:45p CCIC Basketball Bernardino Palma † opened the door of faith to the Albert & Olga E Rodrigues † Wednesday - May 22, 2019 Gentiles (Acts 14:21-27). Hall Gym 3:00p-6:30p SJBS Jr Knights 7:00PM Holy Souls in Purgatory † Psalm — I will praise your name Sunday – May 19, 2019 Hall Gym 6:30p-8:00p Private Event - AAU BAL Church 7:30p-9:00p Music Ministry Practice for ever, my king and my God 7:30AM Cecilia Bonachita † (Psalm 145). Efren Nojadera † Hall 2B 7:45p-9:45p Myrna’s Choir Practice Val Wilson † Thursday - May 23, 2019 Second Reading — God’s 9:00AM Mass for the People Hall Gym 1:00p-6:30p SJBS Jr Knights dwelling is with the human race 10:45AM Carlos Dajano † Hall 1A 6:30p-9:30p 10:45 Choir Practice (Revelation 21:1-5a). Miguela B de Leon † Church 7:15p-9:15p Baptismal Prep Class Jeromy Kyle Edusada † Gospel — This is how all will Hall 2A 7:30p-9:00p Parish Leaders know that you are my disciples, if Ada McReynolds † Friday - May 24, 2019 Oscar Taleon † you have love for one another Hall Gym 3:00p-6:30p SJBS Jr Knights (John 13:31-33a, 34-35). 12:30PM Francis F Oribello (Birthday) Hall 2A 7:00p-11:00p SJBS Queen Leoncia B Oribello (Birthday) The English translation of the Psalm Responses from Hall 2B 7:00p-11:00p SJBS Queen Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, International Terrence & Maureen Asuncion Saturday - May 25, 2019 Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All (Thx) rights reserved. Ermina Angeles † Hall 2B 10:30a-12:30p Jr Legion of Mary Tranquilino De Guzman † Hall 2A 11:00a-3:00p SJB Youth Choir READINGS FOR THE WEEK Tony Luna † Hall Gym 3:00p-10:00p Private Event 7:00PM Leanna Jasmin Cu † Ch Yard 4:30p - 8:20p K of C Membership Monday: Acts 14:5-18; Ps Milagros Elazegui † Drive 115:1-4, 15-16; Jn 14:21-26 Crisencia Lumague † Sunday - May 26, 2019 Tuesday: Acts 14:19-28; Ps Cesar H Pascasio † Ch Yard 7:00a-8:30p K of C Membership 145:10-13ab, 21; Jn 14:27- Trinidad Ustaris † Drive 31a Asteria Virtucio † Hall Gym 6:00p-11:00p Bingo Set Up Monday – May 20, 2019 Wednesday: Acts 15:1-6; Ps 7:00AM Kristine Kay Ramirez (Spec Int) 122:1-5; Jn 15:1-8 Terrence & Maureen Asuncion Thursday: Acts 15:7-21; Ps 96:1 (Thx) -3, 10; Jn 15:9-11 Rogelio Laya † Jacob F Noftell † Friday: Acts 15:22-31; Ps 57:8- Carmelita Inacay Orjalo † 10, 12; Jn 15:12-17 Tuesday – May 21, 2019 Saturday: Acts 16:1-10; Ps 7:00AM Brianna Realin (Birthday) Kristine Kay Ramirez (Spec Int) 100:1b-3, 5; Jn 15:18-21 Valentina Fagundes † Sunday: Acts 15:1-2, 22-29; Ps Rogelio Laya † 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8; Rv 21:10-14, Jacob F Noftell † 22-23; Jn 14:23-29 Carmelita Inacay Orjalo Virgilio A Orteza † Rolando Sabado † Let us pray for the sick: Josie Delinela, David Dilling, Darwin Domingo, William Lagman, Wednesday – May 22, 2019 Dem Nitafan, Pepito Palacios, Siony Palacios, Julie Pierce, Josie Realin, Evelyn Reyes, 7:00AM Rogelio Laya † and Jerome Tayag. May the Lord relieve them of their pain and suffering. Jacob F Noftell † 6:30PM Jovencia Domingo † Let us pray for those requesting prayers: Expecting Mothers, Unemployed Parishioners, Rolando Sabado † and US Troops. Thursday – May 23, 2019 Let us pray for all those who have passed away: Victor Balancier, Jovencia Domingo, 7:00AM Rogelio Laya † Maura Fernando, Jack Hillan, Margarita Mayrena, and Tran Minh Vu. Jacob F Noftell † May God grant them eternal rest. Friday – May 24, 2019 7:00AM Rogelio Laya † Names of those who are sick will remain on the prayer list for one month Jacob F Noftell † unless otherwise requested. Saturday - May 25, 2019 E-mail [email protected] to submit names. 7:00AM People of the Parish Page 4 FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION From the Weekend: Frequent liers today have many ways to accrue air miles, May 4 & 5 so one doesn’t always have to endure long hours in cramped

seats to earn free hours in cramped seats. In St. Paul’s day, Saturday 5:00 PM 1,356.00 7:00 AM 657.00 there were no such perks, nor would there have been any Sunday 7:30 AM 1,763.00 legal system for him to protest the shipwrecks he endured. He 9:00 AM 1,436.00 had other rewards in mind. The churches that he established 10:45 AM 1,992.00 in the catalogue of cities from today’s irst reading must have 12:30 PM 1,242.00 been very different from one another. Language, culture, 7:00 PM 1,863.70 Online Giving (OG) 450.40 customs, religious history, obstacles to community, social challenges, the places where they met, their clothing, their Total Sunday Offering $ 10,760.10 bread and wine, all distinct, particular to the area. Our Weekly Goal $ 11,000.00 There were social customs as well: in a Christian Variance (239.90) household, the only place where a slave would be able to Novena 421.00 stand legally as an equal with the master would be at the table First Friday 844.00 Maintenance Fund (plus OG) 2,194.00 of the Lord, because at that table a new world of reconciliation was imaged. While Paul revered local customs, he was Upcoming Second Offerings: relentless about challenging the ways that people lived their 06/06/19 St John Parish School Christian lives and how their worship relected them. It is THANK YOU FOR YOUR much the same today, as a global Catholic Church seeks to GENEROUS GIFTS! respect local customs and culture, allowing for differences in Please make checks payable to many things, yet always giving expression to the underlying “St John the Baptist Parish.” presence of Christ, who binds us all together into his body. —James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Sunday: Fifth Sunday of Easter Monday: St. Bernardine of Siena Tuesday: St. Christopher Magallanes and Companions Wednesday: St. Rita of Cascia Saturday: St. Bede the Venerable; St. Gregory VII; St. Mary Magdalene de’ Pazzi

MISSIONARIES OF MERCY Paul’s back! After last week’s “violent abuse,” opponents organized a lynch mob that beat Paul nearly to death. But call Paul the “energizing evangelist,” transforming deadly cruelty into life-giving zeal. Paul’s past courage should inspire our commitment; Revelation’s future “new heaven, new earth” should inspire our optimism. But Revelation’s present assurance, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with the human race,” should challenge us to become “missionaries of mercy.” Because Pope Francis declared that the Church’s credibility is completely dependent on our showing unconditional mercy. Mercy, said Francis, makes the Church, the world, and everyone young again, reawakened to life’s noblest virtues. Fittingly, in today’s Gospel Jesus reinforces that theme: “This is how all will know you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

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No Stunt Man for Jesus Today’s irst and second readings seem to contradict each other. In the Acts of the Apostles, Paul and Barnabas remind the other disciples that they would 2019-2020 Facility Scheduling “undergo many hardships to enter the kingdom of God” (Acts 14:22). But in the second reading from Attention All Parish Groups: Revelation, John says there will be “no more . . . Please submit Facility Request Forms / Pavalkis Hall mourning, wailing, or pain” (Revelation 21:4). These Application Forms for your FY 2019-2020 facility requirements to Ed Sacramento or drop them off at the two sides of the Kingdom show how real our faith is. Parish Ofice by the deadline date of: Life is frequently contradictory. A woman in labor Friday, May 31, 2019 moves from pain to joy in seconds after her child is born. She doesn’t forget the pain, but knows it is Forms are available at the Parish Ofice or online at www.sjbparish.org. necessary for the joy of new birth. Only the artist ______knows how much effort and pain went into the The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults creation of a painting, sculpture, or symphony. There will be no RCIA on May 25th due to the holiday That’s why Jesus in the Gospel talks of his coming weekend. death on the cross as the way that God will glorify him. For more information on the RCIA Process, contact Even God does not do things the easy way. Jesus didn’t Faith Formation Ofice 408-262-2546 x315 or Dave send a stunt man to take his place on the cross. It was Meszaros 408-892-0510 or [email protected] God who was born in poverty, in a time of high infant ______mortality (even higher when Herod tried to kill the Knights News - St. John’s Council No. 5796 Child). It was God who suffered, from the Agony in the We will hold our membership drive next weekend. Garden through the Cruciixion. Knights will be present to answer any questions you may have, inform you of projects we sponsor, and assist So when Jesus tells us to love one another as he has you with joining our organization of “Catholic loved us, he knows what it cost. And he also knew that Gentlemen.” his death on the cross would be the beginning of a way Nominations for Leadership positions are now being of love that will eventually lead to “no more death or accepted. The nominations will be disclosed during the mourning, wailing or pain.” We’re not there yet, but May meetings. Election of Oficers will occur during the we know we are not alone in our suffering for “God June meeting. himself will always be with them” (Revelation 21:3). Membership: Any practicing Catholic gentleman over the age of 18 may join the Knights of Columbus. Tom Schmidt, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co. For more info, please contact Grand Knight Ervin Reyes (408) 421-3568 [email protected] ______GARDENING Veterans Tributes & Memorial Day Masses Kind hearts are the garden, We are honored to serve those who served with honor. Kind thoughts are the root, Kind words are the blossoms, Monday, May 27, 2019 Veteran’s Tribute at 10:30 am Kind deeds are the fruit. Memorial Day Mass at 11:00 am —Anonymous Gate of Heaven Cemetery 22555 Cristo Rey Dr. Los Altos w Presider: Bishop Oscar Cantú ww at ble .s Calvary Cemetery la jbp ai ar 2650 Madden Ave Av ish .or San Jose g Presider: Rev. Michael Hendrickson Held outdoors. Chairs and shade tents provided. Please allow time to park. For more information, call 650-549-6056 If You Live Alone You Need MDMedAlert! PACIFIC TIRE ✔Ambulance 24 Hour Protection at HOME and AWAY! ✔Police CST 2117990-70 FREE Shipping ✔Fire Solutions as Low as Come Sail Away OUTLET, INC. FREE Activation ✔Friends/Family 95 on a 7-night Catholic Brakes • Tires • Wheels NO Long Term Contracts $19. a month This Button SAVES Lives! Exotic Cruise starting Shocks • Alignment As Shown GPS, Lowest Price Guaranteed! as low as $1045 per couple CALL NOW! GPS Tracking w/Fall Detection an Official 800.809.3352 Brian or Sally, coordinators Travel Agency 100 S. Main St. Nationwide, No Land Line Needed of Apostleship MDMedAlert EASY Set-up, NO Contract 860.399.1785 of the Sea-USA Safe-Guarding America’s Seniors Nationwide! 24/7 365 Monitoring in the USA 946-6828 Please support the advertisers in your bulletin, and thank them for their continued support. They make your bulletin possible.

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MOTHER BLEST Though she was the Mother of the Lord, yet she desired to learn the precepts of the Lord, and she who brought forth God, yet desired to know God.

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