SAINT BARBARA PARISH at OLD

A Franciscan Center of Evangelization

In response to God’s call to love, we are a faith community that strives to live the gospel in prayer, formation, evangelization, outreach and stewardship in the Franciscan tradition.

AUGUST 23, 2020 TWENTY-FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Simon Peter said in reply "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God" Matthew 16: 15-16

2201 Laguna Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105 | (805) 682-4151 | saintbarbaraparish.org STAFF NEW SCHEDULE

For best access to the Parish Staff, please send an Outdoor Masses (in front of the church): e-mail. Voicemails are being checked periodically as 8:00 a.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday the staff is working mostly remotely. 4:00 p.m. Saturday Our general office e-mail is: [email protected] 11:00 a.m. Sunday Please bring a lawn/folding chair. Face mask and 6-foot distancing required. Fr. Dan Lackie, OFM - Pastor Office: (805) 682-4151 ext. 101 [email protected] LiveStream Mass: 9:00 a.m. Sunday – streamed live from Serra Chapel Terry Bascombe via YouTube Parish Manager Office: (805) 682-4151 ext. 102 [email protected] GIFT SHOP IS OPEN!

Roy Spicer Director of Sacred Music and Liturgy Did you know that 85% of the Mission’s Office: ext. 103 revenue comes from tours and gift shop sales? With [email protected] tours closed due to the State mandate, the Mission continues to be severely financially impacted by the Alex Turcios pandemic. Director of Faith Formation However, the gift shop is now OPEN EVERY Office: ext. 116 DAY with full health protocols in place. You can also [email protected] shop online from the comfort of your home! Best of all, every purchase plays a vital role in ensuring the Mission's sustainability. Active Retirement Fr. Larry Gosselin, OFM Store Hours: Office: ext. 105 Sunday to Saturday (10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.) [email protected] ShopOnline: www.santabarbaramission.org/gift-shop Free Delivery and Curbside Pick-Up Available! FOOD DISTRIBUTION Call 805.682.4149

Please help us spread the word: There will be no food distribution next Tuesday, 8/25! We hope to start back in September and will make an announcement once we know more.

Over the last 9 weeks, in partnership with The Berry Man, Inc and The U.S.D.A Farmers to Families Food Box Program we handed out over 3,210 boxes of fresh produce to those in need. We are so grateful to have been a part of such a wonderful program!

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Dear Friend, Old Mission Santa Barbara is excited to According to many announce an online speaker series to explore the role calculations, this week marks of race and ethnicity in history. As part the completion of month of our Franciscan values, we believe in peace, justice, five of our experience of the and reconciliation, and feel that it is important for us pandemic lockdown/shelter to be a part of the conversation and face our history. in place. The opening prayer This five-part series explores a different area each of this week’s liturgy seems week and is open to all parishioners to attend for a very apt marker for this free. moment.

“O God, who cause the minds of the faithful to unite in a single purpose, grant your people to love what you command and to desire what you promise, that, amid the uncertainties of this world, our hearts may be fixed on that place where true gladness is found.”

Thursday, August 27th at 5:30pm In technical terms, the opening prayer of the Mass is known as the “collect” because it is meant “Don’t Kill Me Sister”: Race and Gender in Mexican California to “collect” us into one focus at the outset of Sunday Mass. Many of these prayers date from the earliest Dr. Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, Dept. of History days of Christian liturgy and, like the scriptures Professor, UCSB themselves, can feel very immediate, with meaning that can unfold and even rhyme in some way with Thursday, September 3rd at 5:30pm current circumstances and dilemmas. If nothing Asian American Communities in California else, I think every person who hears and prays these Dr. Lily Anne Welty Tamai, Asian American Studies words with the priest this Sunday will relate to the Dept., UCLA phrase “amid the uncertainties of this world”! Praying this week’s “collect” as our strange Thursday, September 10th at 5:30pm summer comes to a close, I ask you to consider what might be the “single purpose” behind the life Black Leaders of Leisure in their Struggle for Freedom and programming of our parish. In line with our and the California Dream during the Jim Crow Era: The Implications of these Stories for Our Lives Today Franciscan value of joy, consider how we might work together in the days ahead to uncover “that place of Dr. Alison Rose Jefferson, Historian and Heritage true gladness” and “fix our hearts” on that! Conservation Consultant Like Peter in this week’s Gospel, we are made to stand at the threshold of heaven and earth, and, in the words of the master theologian N.T. Wright, Sign up for one or all five! For full descriptions of “be the conduit through which God’s life comes to session content, and to register, visit: earth and earth’s praises rise to God.” A good place to locate ourselves amidst the world’s “uncertainties” www.santabarbaramission.org/exploring-race and a wonderful purpose, too. Gratefully, Fr. Dan ofm, Pastor Page 3 COMMUNITY

Mass Intentions We are a Laudato Si Parish

Immigration and the Next America: Renewing the We will be praying for all those affected by Soul of Our Nation: Part 11 COVID-19 at all Masses. To schedule a Mass intention, contact Based on his decades of ministry [email protected] with undocumented newcomers to America, Archbishop Gomez has “concluded that people Aug 22 +Arlene Bascombe don’t really choose to leave their homelands. Aug 23 +Matthew Simon Perez (9 a.m.) Emigration is almost always forced upon people Aug 23 Edward Joseph Pfeiler- 100th birthday by the dire conditions they face.” They believe (11 a.m.) “that any life would be better than the one they’re Aug 24 +Mary Salvestrini living now.” He asks, “What wouldn’t we do to Aug 25 +Allan Graf feed the hungry mouths we are responsible for?” Aug 26 +Joe Salvestrini Aug 28 +Catherine C. Clark Writing before the designation “essential Aug 29 +Bernard A. Clark workers” became commonplace, the Archbishop Aug 30 +John Hynd (9 a.m.) points out that “those who come here without Aug 30 +Theodore Fortinash (11 a.m.) authorization come to work, and they form the backbone of our economy…doing jobs that American workers won’t do – either because the pay is too low or the work is too hard, or both… Keeping our Children Safe Many of them have income taxes withheld from their paychecks—even though they are Get to Know Your Child's Online Activity not eligible for any benefits” except emergency medical treatment. (Might we think of those taxes More and more children will be relying as “down payments” on citizenship?) But why on the internet to continue their education this don’t they just go home and get in line? “The basic year. For parents who have already instilled strict reality is that the waiting list to get a new visa screen time guidelines, having children online from …could be ten years or even twenty- for school can be cause for concern. Talk to your five years.” children about appropriate online behavior, how to know what sites they should and should not Jesus tells us that the nations will be judged visit, what to do if they find themselves on an by their treatment of the hungry, thirsty stranger. inappropriate site or in an exchange that makes ~Roger Bergman ([email protected]) them feel uncomfortable, as well as how they should handle themselves on social media and other online correspondence. Your child’s teachers will likely have detailed plans for how to handle Online Giving any online schooling. Talk to them about what apps or websites your child will need, and their Thank you to all who have responded so plans for protecting children from cyber bullying, generously through online giving! For more inappropriate contact, and other online dangers. information on how to give online, visit: For more information, visit https://lacatholics.org/ did-you-know/. santabarbaraparish.org/donate

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