Second Sunday of Advent December 10, 2017
PARISH OFFICE 209 E. Lomita Ave. Glendale, CA 91205 [email protected]
www.hfglendale.org Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe Phone: (818) 247-2222 Masses: OFFICE HOURS Monday to Thursday: 8:30am - 8:30pm December 12th Friday: 8:30am - 7:00pm 6:30, 8am, 10:00am (Schools), 12:15, 5:30 & 7pm Saturday: 8:30am - 5:00pm Mass at 6:30 AM Sunday: 8:30am - 2:00pm (Spanish) CLERGY Pastor: Rev. James Bevacqua, ext. 225 [email protected] Associate Pastors: Rev. Kevin Nolan, ext. 229 [email protected]
Rev. Xavier Dsouza, ext. 227
Deacons: Deacon Ron Baker, ext. 552 [email protected] Deacon Neon Recuenco, ext. 553 [email protected] Deacon John Steele, Senior deacon IN RESIDENCE Rev. Samuel Ward
MASSES Daily: 6:30am, 8:00am, 5:30pm Saturday: 8:00am, 5:30pm Sunday: 6:30am, 8:00am, 9:30am, 11:00am, 12:30pm (Spanish),
5:30pm (Life Teen)
Civic Holidays: 9:00am only CONFESSIONS Monday & Thursday: 4:30-5:15pm Saturday: 4:00-5:00pm and by Ashes will be distributed at Masses. appointment Scheduled Triduo on December 9th, 10th and 11th at
7 PM in the church Pastor’s Corner SUNDAY DECEMBER 10 Dear Parishioners, 6:30 AM Ruben Morales For the People of the Parish Tuesday is our annual celebration of Our Lady of 8:00 AM Reynaldo Elarmo Guadalupe. We have a special Mass (in Spanish) at 6:30 AM with Balbino Veluz mariachi. (Mañanitas is at 6:00 AM sharp!) After Mass, light refreshments are 9:30 AM Edith M. Finch - Tgiving Ephraim Santa Maria provided at our church patio. The celebration is organized by our Guadalupanas. 11:00 AM Lucas Pangilinan - Tgiving All are invited. Come honor our mother in heaven, patroness of the Americas. Aguayon Family - Tgiving 12:30 PM Luis Maria Perez Fernandez Saturday we begin Holy Family’s annual tradition of nine consecutive 5 AM Balvina & Raul Cardenas Simbang Gabi Masses in our church. This is great spiritual preparation in 5:30 PM Ester Eisma - Tgiving anticipation of our Christmas holy day. Can you make the sacrifice? Are you willing Juan Carillo Valdez MONDAY DECEMBER 11 to get up with the roosters and join us? Refreshments, salo salo breakfast 6:30 AM Imelda Quintos - Tgiving afterwards in the Grade School Auditorium. All are welcome! Ryan Francis T. Cruz th th 8:00 AM Edward Upenieks Please keep in mind that the 4 Sunday of Advent is December 24 . Thus, Ramon Makabali rd all morning Masses (plus the 5:30 PM vigil on December 23 ) are Advent Masses. 5:30 PM Jasmine Legaspi - Tgiving We begin the Christmas celebrations with the 4 pm family Mass on December 24th. Natalia Ereza There are no 6:30 AM and 5:30 PM Life Teen Masses on Christmas Day. If you Mariel Aumentado TUESDAY DECEMBER 12 plan to be out of town for the Christmas celebrations, keep in mind your offering to 6:30 AM Hernandez-Curiel Family - Holy Family. It is much appreciated!!! Check out www.masstimes.org for Mass Tgiving times in your place of travel. Max Luis & Maria Luz Dominguez From time to time the parish will purchase educational brochures on various - Tgiving aspects of the faith and morals through a company called Our Sunday Visitor. Our 8:00 AM Ester & Antero Arias Sunday Visitor is a very solid Catholic publishing company. When we receive Janet Villarmia - Tgiving 5:30 PM Janet Villarmia - Tgiving brochures such as these, we place them out on the tables at the Lomita and Elk Luisa San Andres Avenue doors for your taking. There is no charge for these brochures. Recently we WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 13 purchased one entitled, “What the Church teaches, Islam.” This brochure was 6:30 AM Dr. Mario Lirag created to help us get educated. It is in no way an attempt to promote another Justino Ramos 8:00 AM Rosario Makabali religion. We have to think critically and learn what others believe. Learning what Carmelino Torres others believe does not equate with proselytization or promotion of another faith 5:30 PM Amb. Cesar C. Pastores tradition. Garo Panoyan THURSDAY DECEMBER 14 This very relevant brochure explains the following: What is Islam? What is 6:30 AM Cesar Quintos the Quran? What does Allahu Akbar mean? How does the Catholic Church view Andrew & Maria C. Lopez Islam? It also includes the basic principles of Islam along with the Five Pillars of - Tgiving 8:00 AM Alexis Quiza Islam. It also references meetings of Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI Ofelia Villanueva - Tgiving regarding interreligious dialogue. It even includes what the Quran has to say about 5:30 PM Alvin Deguzman Jesus and Mary. Finally, it addresses the troubled history of Christian-Muslim Kyle Johnson - Tgiving relations along with our common ground. FRIDAY DECEMBER 15 6:30 AM Reynaldo &Potenciana Reyes I wish that we could all be holy and educated Catholic Christians in an Ana Le - Tgiving increasingly secular world. Brochures like these are an attempt to enlighten us and 8:00 AM Senen Maninang Laverne Borowczyk help clarify church teaching, not to promote another religion. Please keep this in 5:30 PM Jeffrey Hillabrand mind and take advantage of such educational opportunities. Eusebio Raceles SATURDAY DECEMBER 16 Advent blessings- 5:00 AM Neng Pardo - Tgiving Capili Family - Tgiving
8:00 AM Jose Jr. & Otilia Salinas Fr. Jim Bevacqua, Pastor Fr. Maurice Harrigan - Tgiving 818-247-2222 x225 5:30 PM Araceli & Jose Masangkay [email protected] - Tgiving Henry Ibasco
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Things To Consider for Advent
BELL RINGERS NEEDED FOR DONATE A SALVATION ARMY WREATH OR Every year local churches volunteer to do bell POINSETTIA ringing and collect money for the poor in the TO HONOR A community. The job is easy. Just ring a little LOVED ONE! bell, collect donations in the famous red kettle and wish people a Merry Christmas. Holy If you would like to donate one of the Family is volunteering for Saturday, December 16 and Monday, December large wreaths around the church 18 from 10am to 6pm at the Von’s on Glendale Avenue. All money collected walls to honor a loved one, please go in Glendale stays in Glendale to help the needy with services and food. to the office to make arrangements. Please consider to do an hour of service for the poor. This is what our The wreaths around the Stations of Catholic mission is! If you are interested, please contact Deacon Ron Baker the Cross are $100 and the one on at 818-247-2222 x552 or [email protected]. Leave your name, the Choir Loft is $200. Your telephone number, e-mail address and the date and approximate time you dedication name will be placed on would like to serve. Thank you . the wreath.
If you would like HOLY FAMILY TOY DRIVE to donate one of the poinsettias in Collection dates are: December 2 and 3 the sanctuary December 9 and 10 during Christmas, The Justice and Peace Committee is please use one of organizing our annual Toy Drive for the Christmas Flower envelopes. underprivileged children whose parents are Write the name of who you would like incarcerated. These children who have parents in jail are often neglected or to be remembered and include the forgotten. Please consider bringing a new unwrapped toy next week when suggested donation of $10 or more. you come to Mass. Please consider gifts for teenage boys as well as other The names will be in a beautiful gold ages for boys or girls. There will be boxes at the church entrances to collect frame that will be placed near the your donations. Thank you for your consideration and generosity. Infant Jesus in the Nativity scene during Christmas. SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL
'Adopt-a-Family' this Christmas’ It’s been a very blessed year once again for our MOLE Society. We are truly thankful to the Lord, to our SAINT pastor and priests, most especially to those who NICHOLAS contributed to the Poor box, whose donations PARISH, were used to assist numerous families in need in our parish. HAITI This Christmas season, how about going a step further and think of As may of 'Adopting a family'? There are many ways of extending our generosity to you are aware, Holy Family has a each of the needy families. To find out how, please leave your name and sister parish in Haiti that we support. phone number at our voicemail box at (818) 247-2222 (x507) and we will get Envelopes may be found in the pews back to you as soon as we can. We welcome grocery gift cards and store if you would like to make a gift certificates. Christmas donation to go towards
We are looking forward to hearing from you....together we can make a our poor parish in Haiti. Thank you difference in a family's Christmas this year. Thank you and GOD BLESS! for your generosity.
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PRAY FOR….The Recovery of: Milagro Bunkers, Alba Alvarado, Nap Bañez, Cristina Vasquez, Angelina Vasquez, Matthew Tribble, Josefina Madrigal, Roberto Madrigal, George Madrigal, Rosa Madrigal, Maria Madrigal, Valerio Ortiz, Eloira Gomez, Amalia Gutierrez, Susana Montes, Maggie Baxter, Hermelinda Gaytan, Elena Ramirez, Amanda Perez, Benjamin Elderly religious need your help. The religious Guevarra pictured here represent more than 32,000 senior Catholic sisters, brothers, and religious order priests living in the United Those who have died before us States. Through prayer, love, and sacrifice, they established Catholic and their families… schools, hospitals, and more. Yet years of serving for little or no pay have left Hank Caruso, Benjamin Flores, a shortage in retirement funding. Your gift helps their religious communities Raul Talledo, Sally Hernandez, Molly Powers, Mary Christie
May the souls of all faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS Help care for elders. “Thanks to support from the Retirement Fund for 4:30 – 5:15 PM Religious, we are now in a much better position to care for our elders,” writes Please note: No confessions on a religious sister. Your donation helps her religious community and hundreds December 25 & 28 and January 1 of others provide for aging members and plan for long-term needs. Please give to next week’s Retirement Fund for Religious collection. Make your SATURDAYS check payable to Retirement Fund for Religious. Special envelopes are 4:00 – 5:00 PM available in the pews.
WEDNESDAY, December 6 7:00 PM Mercy Night Today’s Coffee & The Tweets of Pope Francis St. Dominic’s Penance Service Donuts are being “Let us pray for our brothers sponsored by the MONDAY, December 18 and sisters who encounter St. Vincent De Paul Society. 7:30 PM discrimination and pay a personal price Please join us after the Incarnation’s Penance Service for their fidelity to the Gospel." morning Masses. December 10, 2017 5 Misa De Gallo Misa De Gallo 2017 “Simbang Gabi”
Literally means Dawn Mass also known “Misa Aguinaldo”. Holy Family Church Christmas Day is ushered in by nine-day Dawn Masses that start December 16—24 on December 16 and culminates with the Christmas Midnight Mass. These Masses are 5:00 AM Novena Masses considered as a novena to the (followed by breakfast in the Blessed Virgin Mary. Grade School Auditorrium)
Families/parties interested in joining groups of sponsors for a day of “Simbang Gabi”, please contact: Ernie Lacambra at 818-923-0000 or Rusella Hernandez, 818-731-2072
Holy Family Grade School
December 10, 2017 6 Eucharistic Adoration
From Letters to a Brother Priest, by Rev. Fr. Vincent Martin Lucia and Rev. Msgr. Josefino Ramirez
One night at San Miguel Church I had finished my holy hour when a taxi drove up at 4 A.M. A woman wanted me to talk with her son. They lived in Paranaque. She had been awakened by a voice telling her to come to the church of San Miguel. She got up this time. Her son was just about to commit suicide. He is now well and has been doing very fine since his visit to San Miguel.
Another night, Nonette Silla was in the chapel praying from 2 A.M. to 3 A.M., the hour before mine. Three weeks before, she had lifted up to the Heart of Jesus a man she knew who was destroying the moral life of many of her girlfriends. Her prayer included this man because she knew that Jesus loved him, too. Her prayer ended with an exclamation point that she wanted Jesus to bring him to the chapel so that she would know for sure that he was converted.
Three weeks later while she was in prayer at the chapel she heard someone sobbing in the back. She turned around and it was him. He explained that for three weeks his mind was confused. What he thought was right now looked like it was wrong. He could not sleep. That night he began to drive around the city. He lived in Makati. When he passed the church of San Miguel he saw the light on in the chapel. The light was inviting, welcoming. He decided to stop and come in. What he met was not condemnation for his sins. Instead, he experienced tender mercy from the Blessed Sacrament. That is why he wept.
When I came at 3 A.M., he told me his story. I heard his confession, gave him absolution, and he has been a daily communicant ever since. Nonette’s holy hour gave him something of greater value than the face of Constantine. It stamped his soul with the Precious Blood of Jesus and he could not escape God’s mercy and grace.
Save the Date
DONATION SOLICITATION CONTEST
Candidates must be 7 to 11 years old. The candidate who solicits the highest
accumulated donations will be awarded the title: WINTER DINNER DANCE Prince & Princess of Holy Family 2018
For more information: OC Hernandez, 818-731-2072 Tess Valino Travis, 818-668-7989 Saturday, February 10, 2018, 6 PM Imelda Valeza, 818-679-1342 Lillibeth Morales, 323-448-6790 Holy Family Grade School Auditorium Arleen Penaflor, 818-538-9857
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CATHOLIC BIBLE STUDY LA ARCHDIOCESAN SIMBANG GABI
God has written all of us as love letter – have we read it? Studied it? Shared it with others? Take this opportunity to register for the Catholic Bible Institute, a 3-year bible study program meeting monthly on Saturdays at LMU. This is your opportunity to grow deeper in your relationship with Christ, know your faith even better, and be able to lead bible study groups in your parish. Give yourself the gift of knowing Christ.
Register by December 10th for one of two tracks (Certification or Enrichment): archla.org/cbi and receive a 10% discount! Young Adults: 10% Discount for Young Adults (18-39) - (only if applicable, can be additional to early registration discount).
Theme: Jesus, Light for our shepherds, with Mary, lead us all to holiness. Where: Cathedral of the Lady of the Angels
The Filipino Ministry of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, cordially invites everyone to the first day of the Archdiocesan Simbang Gabi. Simbang Gabi is a popular Philippine tradition whereby the people spiritually prepare for the coming of Jesus by attending the Mass for nine consecutive days prior to Christmas. Pre-liturgy/Parol Procession will begin at 6:30 PM followed by the Mass. All parishes and religious organizations are encouraged to send a delegation with their parol and banner for the Parol Procession. Those from San Fernando Pastoral Region, please obtain the guidelines and pre-register with San Fernando Regional Coordinator - Patty Santiago – email: [email protected] Phone: (818) 472-4288. This event will be live streamed on olacathedral.org/live and also on facebook.com/olacathedral
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COORDINADORES DEL MINISTERIO Nuestra Señora de HISPANO Guadalupe
Santa María de Class para Bautismos Guadalupe, Mística Rosa, Andrea Carranza (323) 210-3797 intercede por la Iglesia, Cruzada del Rosario Protege al Soberano (Lunes a Viernes a las 6PM) Pontífice, Oye a todos los Josefina Regalado (818) 548-6158 que te invocan en sus
Cursillo de Cristianidad (2do Sabado del Mes) Necesidades. Así cómo Amelia Collazos (818) 753-0335 pudiste aparecer En el Tepeyác y decirnos: Soy la Dei Gratia siempre Virgen María, Jose Ibarra (818) 863-2018 Madre del verdadero Dios, Grupo de Oracion Santa Monica (Martes) Alcánzanos de tu Divino Maria Benitez (818) 584-4722 Hijo la Conservación de la
Lectores Fe. Tú eres nuestra Francisco Vasquez (323) 977-0019 Dulce esperanza en las amarguras de esta Vida. Danos
Ministros Extraordinarios de la Sagrada Comunión un amor ardiente y la gracia de La perseverancia final. Lourdes Gonzalez (818) 484-0225 Amén. La Sociedad Guadalupana tiene el honor de invitar a todos los feligreses de “Holy Family Church” al Sociedad Guadalupana triduo los días 9, 10 y 11 de diciembre a las 7 de la Rosario/Gustavo Arias (818) 522-5151 noche y a la Celebración el día 12 a las 6 de la mañana, Ujieres en honor a nuestra querida Madre, la Virgen de Carlos Cardona (818) 378-8002 Guadalupe.
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